Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No. 40. Then our lynx eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The twentieth century has never recoverd from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now one such might be droll enough...
...number of readers. Bloom notes that his purpose was never to offer a full range of solutions but rather to raise questions and, perhaps too, the level of debate. That, both of them have done, along with some hackles. And while some educators concede, however grudgingly, that the bottom line on both books is their extraordinary ability to engage the nation in a renewed dialogue on education, others say the very popularity of the books is the most powerful argument against their theses. For where but in a well-educated country would so many people turn in the heat...
...volunteers, are skilled racing oarsmen. Even so, handling the as yet unnamed trireme, which will be commissioned later this month, proved to be daunting. The seats do not move, as in modern shells, and the space between them is so small that oarsmen cannot move their bodies. The two bottom tiers of oarsmen must row blind. Guidance comes from the top level of rowers, who can see when the oars -- which are only 12 inches apart -- are overlapping. Those on the lowest tier suffer the most: beams lie behind their heads, and the weight of the oar can force...
...After deboarding, a junior counselor and I were looking at the bus. We thought it might have overheated; little wisps of what looked like steam were coming out of the hood. However, we didn't stand around to see what might happen, because we noticed something leaking from the bottom of the bus (we thought it was water). Returning to the rest of our group, who were several hundred yards down the highway behind the bus, we watched, as over the course of seven to 10 minutes, the white stream became a cloud of smoke, steadily increasing and turning black...
Worse yet, there was no way to avoid harsh bottom-line judgments of what Reagan had actually done, or failed to do, in the Iran-contra fiasco...