Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner at 7:00, book-cracking in Dunster Library at 9:00, "pretending" to study back in Donald's room from 1 until 5:30 every night and up for classes at 9:00 in the morning, makes "bit" sound like something of an understatement. Is this Harvard's answer to the bionic woman...
...more amazing still are the ones who hate it. My junior roommate from Rochester, New York, really a marvelous guy and a cineaste to boot, just couldn't see why this was so funny. (Senator Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex Haley might point out, of its roots. Like tumescent udders...
CHAIRMAN J. PARNELL THOMAS. It is a very simple question. Anybody would be proud to answer it--any real American would be proud to answer the question, "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" --any real American...
...Fain, the author of that sentence is Renata Adler. Who else could hide a land mine under well-tended prose with quite as much apparent innocence? It takes a second or two to realize that intellectuals have been exempted from the frantic metamorphoses demanded by modern life. Why? The answer comes in bits and pieces: anyone who accepts (or demands) the label intellectual is automatically too dumb to deserve it. To prove the point, Adler puts her heroine through a year of teaching, "by mistake," at a Manhattan college, surrounded by "feather bedding illiterates" and "reactionary pedants." Visiting Professor Fain...
...become a profoundly perplexing question for doctors and, indeed, all of society: Should heroic measures-respirators and other marvels of modern medical technology-be used to prolong the lives of the dying who no longer want to live? Last week California gave its answer. It became the first state to legalize the right of the terminally ill to decree their own deaths...