Word: cluckings
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Surely the plainest thug who read them Would cluck with ancient pity...
This lack of passion keeps you clean. Student politics is farcical. It is left to former Midwestern student council presidents. There are causes and causes. Issues come and go. You cluck your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style, you know; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. And so on and on. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...
...important character trait. They "believe passionately in the integrity of all the world." Although they have spent their lives crusading vainly and have witnessed a great deal of violence and cruelty, they are convinced that everyone is basically good. Smiling, they distribute money to armless, legless beggars and cluck sadly at racial violence in the South. When they are pushed around for no reason by expressionless secret police and their innocent friends are beaten and locked up, they just keep smiling and don't think for a moment that Haiti's despotism might be less than benevolent...
...Right Man. The Negro is arriving at name-on-the-door status at a time when starting salaries for all kinds of graduates can only make old grads cluck in envy. The best-paid are top-graded engineers, whose B.S. degrees will earn them between $600 and $625 a month. Even graduates in the lowest-paying fields-government, journalism and general business-stand to begin at $400 to $500. William Eagleson, a 22-year-old Negro from M.I.T. (B.S. in metallurgy), was interviewed on campus by seven companies, accepted invitations for four plant tours, decided to enter Ford...
...they haven't chosen Baby's name yet," sighed Lady Douglas-Home to a cluck of newshens. "They've tried everything. They've even been through the 'Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names and found nothing." Asked when the infant daughter of Diana Douglas-Home Wolfe-Murray would be christened, Granny Douglas-Home, chuckling at her own fun, replied: "I don't know-she can't be christened until they've got a name for her, can she?" At week's end the Big Problem at 10 Downing Street was resolved...