Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the enormous size and erratic sound of the Bowl, and with the relative paucity of new material, I kept wondering why the Pythons were doing this show. If they were indeed taping the performances for theatrical or television distribution, it seems a bit of a cheat to include so many skits that have already been seen. Much as I love this group, I was ultimately unsatisfied with the show: lots of teasing and panting, but no climax. No encore, either...
...finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat one another? In the days of Tammany Hall perhaps? Or when slaveholders wrote of the self-evident truth that all men are created equal...
Last night in the library your bio texts were stolen. You can't afford new ones until your paycheck comes...and that's after the midterm. Should you cheat? Steal someone else's books...
...thoroughly devasted Harrington's version of the "real Marx," leaving readers gasping for breath and muttering, "please, please stop, our young liberal spirits want so badly to believe in something fresh and new and radical." But Bell will not stop. He further charges that Harrington's book is a "cheat," and, depressingly, he proves...
...musings will no doubt prove prescient, his analysis correct. Michael Harrington probably did "cheat" Marx, in the abstract. Nonetheless, Marx hoped for--nay, expected--the merging of theory and praxis. His was a resounding call to action. Bell's ideas have a powerful appeal, but Michael Harrington is out on the streets, trying to affect social change, while Bell is in his office, analyzing social change. The choice is stark: this weekend, you can skim The Winding Passage and absorb ideas; or you can attend the nearest DSOC meeting