Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard: a professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...
...phrases "there is no health in us" and "miserable offenders" are excised from the General Confession. Contrition has been cut back elsewhere. In the marriage service the couple is no longer charged with having to answer for any impediment to their marriage "at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed...
Since this was TV, the answer is not hard to guess. Buddy's decision to remain chaste was realistic for a girl her age. Going to bed with Zack also might have been realistic, except that television's conservatism, especially in hit series, ruled it out. The show was not really about making a choice; it was a coy and irritating tease...
...appalled. I just can't get the words and the music together." Sighed lifelong Democrat Newton Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a Carter supporter: "The Cabinet is not the problem. It is the people in the White House. Elevating Ham Jordan is no answer...
...pull out on him too. And he goes knowing that he'll be back, that you can't keep a good man down, that you can't put a stake through your own heart of darkness. So we return to our isolated hells, knowing that he has the answer to our terminal loneliness, our inability to know--really know--other human beings: ingest them...