Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have ended in 1486. In a final and separate section of the book, he does his own inventing: a complex of psychoanalysts, a failing of students, an unction of undertakers (a larger group: an extreme unction), a rise of mini-skirts. He even outlines production rules: onomatopoeia, habitat, comment, etc. Always, the first term must pinpoint a feeling we have about the group being described. For instance, Lipton rules out calling prostitutes an anthology of pros, because the humor lies in the second term--anthology makes no poetic comment on prostitutes (a flourish of strumpets just might squeak...
...your personal freedom has been diminished by the threat of conscription, so much so that you have altered career plans or otherwise done things you wouldn't ordinarily do, please send me a concise summary c/o the Chemistry Dept., University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403. Of course, any other comment on details of the Volunteer Army Bill will be appreciated. Bruce J. Chasan
...coed from Vassar, the Boston Globe quoted, described Dartmouth as "a sylvan bucolic place with a good academic climate." She went on to comment on the week, "we must have coeducation; girls intellectually sit on their fannies when they are alone...
UCRA also aims to "foster similar groups where they do not exist, acquainting them with techniques of proved effectiveness." Pinsky said that the only Harvard professor to indicate that he wanted to organize a UCRA at Harvard was Handlin. Handlin could not be reached for comment...
...Daily praised Mrs. Richard Nixon - while simultaneously bemoaning her taste in clothes as "bland." In sketches by a staff artist, the daily bible of the U.S. fashion industry then offered its own notion of what Pat Nixon should wear. TIME went further, calling on four top U.S. designers to comment on Pat's clothing and create an elegant wardrobe for the new First Lady of the land...