Word: conveyer
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Reuben manages to convey enough common sense to make the book at least episodically informative. He reflects a matter-of-fact permissiveness about sexuality, and straightforwardly attacks a variety of common myths. But the book has probably infuriated as many readers as it has enlightened. "Human destiny," writes the author at one point, "is constant, relentless copulation"-unintentionally implying that sex is almost a reflex function, like bowel movement. Elsewhere, Reuben suggests that Coke is "the best douche available." REUBEN...
...presumably his last, although I suspect he will confound his critics, who have persisted for the last decade in treating him posthumously, by transubstantiating his immortal remains into yet another book, entitled Scances and Exhumations. Stravinsky employs a gleeful and at times parasitic mastery of Americanese to lightly convey his scorn of cultural dipsomania, sentimentality, vulgarity, and mordancy. He despises the orotund, the bucolic, and the self-immolative. His thoughts are not the sorrowful responsory of an embittered or "mightily praisefed" superannuated composer...
...faculty voted-as a faculty and not in "convocation"-to send representatives to Washington, who would convey the faculty's opposition to the Southeast Asian adventures. It also voted to request that the Corporation place in escrow withholding taxes of consenting employees, refusing to pay these taxes to the government until American troops had withdrawn from Cambodia...
...advice, consent, of even knowledge of Cabinet or Congress, will not be affected by even the most ardent lobbying. The Harvard Corporation is unlikely to take the requested act of civil disobedience of withholding tax dollars from the government. Yet symbols do matter, in so for as they convey the desperation, and the sense of political impotence, felt by the faculty of the Graduate School of Education...
...Open Conspiracy aims at the great middle class, how well does it convey the feelings and thoughts of a burgeoning American radicalism...