Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read very fast, Mrs. Wood admonished her with "young lady, if there is any doubt in your mind about ultimate success, I promise you that you will fail. You must have perfect confidence in yourself." If a student complains he is not learning it, Mrs. Wood will say "You aren't trying hard enough." To doubt the party dogma, the absolute rightness of the Wood technique, is to fight the system. Fighting the system means you do not really want to learn it, after all, you are wasting valuable energy. If you take your speeding seriously, it can be rather...
Strick, or his scriptwriters, must also be commended for the judicious selection of dialogue fragments here. Often, in Bloom's imaginings, single faces fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born...
...came to Harvard's Negroes to listen first and talk later. As one member of AAAAS remarked, "He's an unassuming, very approachable guy, easy in conversation, and really concerned. He sees politics as affecting the daily life of the people -- not as an end in itself. There aren't too many like that...
...Monro said, "if you start limiting your investments with social welfare in mind, there aren't going to be that many companies available which are free from social criticism...
Most biography with its marching tone of inevitable progress, upward development, and certainty is frightening. Starting Out in the Thirties is full of people who make mistakes, who aren't completely honest with themselves at crucial times, whose lives are changed by the interference of chance; just like people starting out in the sixties...