Word: careened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close look at child leashes explains the problem with the recent child leash phenomenon: I don't like them. I was a kid, and I was a pain in the neck sometimes. Memories of what it felt like to careen around like a pinball while my mother was trying to buy groceries make my emotions twinge when I see a kid on a leash. My head tells me child leashes are a small thing and there is a reason for them. My heart tells me to put up a sign in the Square that says, "Children must keep their parents...
...comedy series with no cackling studio audience, no laugh track--indeed, almost no laughs? Forget it. A police show in which cars never careen through the streets, drug pushers are strangely absent, and nobody draws a gun? No way. A network midseason replacement that tiptoes into the little-watched time period opposite Dallas for an unheralded six-show run? So long, Charlie...
Neither do any of us. How horrible to think that the routinization of modern life has penetrated even into the hospital delivery ward and that babies become like so many home appliances rolling off the assembly line, one after another. Blase orderlies careen around the maternity ward sorting the newborns--different colors sometimes, but basically interchangeable...
Anyone who knows anything about the Spartacus Youth League must have done a double-take when they read Joseph Menn's "Platonic Dialogue?" (November 19). The piece was a "fictional" epistolary exchange between two Harvard students, one who heads the "Sisyphus Youth League," Thomas Careen, and the other who heads the Conservative Club, Sy Kahane. Menn was really referring to the SYL's Thomas N. Crean, and right-wing Iranian prince Saied Kashani. He attempted to hide his politics behind crude fiction. The central point was that communist defense of the Soviet Union against U.S. imperialism can be equated with...
With warmest regards, Thomas N. Careen...