Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importance of "trauma" in Lawrence's development, and focuses instead on his subject's creativity. This emphasis makes a great deal of sense, since Lawrence had without doubt a one-of-a-kind imagination. The study of medieval romances consumed him as an undergraduate, and even as a boy he dreamed of someday helping an oppressed people to free themselves. The Arab campaign gave Lawrence his own modern Crusade, Mack says, and the Turks became the dragon for this latter-day St. George to slay...
Announcer: You were going to give birth to an illegitimate child, but lost it through a miscarriage. What would you have named it if it had been a boy...
...They have, in fact, fallen into mediocrity. One of the players, now a timid and bitterly self-pitying junior high school principal, mentions that his son asked him to define mediocrity. He notes that mediocre means "of low excellence," and he claims that his son asked simply because the boy sees his father as the epitome of mediocrity, the epitome of low excellence...
WELL. Byrd is a good ole boy, came up the hard way and all that. The last time he ran for the Senate he got 90 per cent of all votes cast. He's the Senate Democratic whip. He's also a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, and he voted against every civil rights measure in the '60s, including the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1970. Senator Byrd is liberalizing himself lately, probably because he wants to be majority leader...
...works by blat-influence, clout. Military families intermarry-so do scientific families, party families, writers' families. A Soviet old-boy network promotes its children's careers. Teachers can be intimidated to give better grades to sons of the powerful. According to Smith, "Russians themselves comment that the upper-class feeling today increasingly seems like Russia before the Revolution...