Word: brags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest entry into the vocational school brag-bag is A-200, a field-study course in the Harvard School of Education mostly for students getting doctorates in school administration. A-200 has a contract with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), which is trying to force cooperation between different town governments within the Boston area to prepare for an eventual metropolitan system of vocational education. At the same time A-200 has a contract with Operation School House, another Ed School group that plans schools for the city of Boston, to write the specifications for a new vocational high school...
...that anyone expected less. Though few experts picked St. Louis for the pennant at season's start, Manager Red Schoendienst's Cardinals were clearly the class of the league, soaring home with a huge 1(H game lead and the kind of statistics fans like to brag about-a .263 team batting average and five pitchers with wins in double figures. So it was hardly surprising that they went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That...
...team's record-66 wins, 51 losses, for a percentage of .564-is still nothing to brag about. No team in league history has ever wound up in a World Series with a winning percentage that low. There is always a first time. At least that is what Las Vegas odds makers figure. Last week they made the Twins even money favorites to win the American League pennant...
...speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
...that hypothesis is true, then civilization has nothing much to brag about. Modern man does not constitute an end product, an exponential improvement of the aboriginal dowry, an evolutionary intellectual advance. He is merely another mode of human society, coexisting and coequal with the most primitive tribes that have somehow survived, despite seemingly naive and archaic customs, into the space age. The marvelous fruits of contemporary Western culture-technology, medicine, literature, TV, the H-bomb-show an exercise of the mind no more commendable or admirable than the savage's totems and bone beads. Today's philosophies reflect...