Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...root of the opposition to Reagan's reception of an honorary is political. Reagan, the Presidency itself, and most of our society is soaked through and through with politics of one sort or another. The interesting thing is that so many members of our community feel compelled to couch it in other terms ("worthiness," for instance). What this incident shows about Harvard is that we are passing through a sort of uneasy transition period in which some acts of purely political pressure are acceptable, and some...
Finally he discovered the bird under a couch "huffing and puffing and breathing hard." Since the conure's wings were clipped, his attempts at flying turned out to be "more of a falling glide," says Nicholson...
...Literary Critic F.R. Leavis squared off in their two-cultures debate some 25 years ago, it was already apparent that science was reshaping language and that humanism was trying to give itself laboratory airs. Leftists hardwired literature to Marx's social engineering, psychoanalysis cut the classics to fit the couch, and professors of English gave their essays titles like "The Entropy of the Imagination." Today words like process, systems, positive and negative are plugged into common discourse like so many microchips. The result can be toxic to the imagination and mother tongue...
...WORST SCENES are certainly those in which the younger characters tell their problems to O'Toole. Their difficulties thump like so many case studies from everyone's favorite bearded Viennese couch-keeper, with the lifelessness ordinarily confined to pre-pubescent diaries. O'Toole's answers whisper forth with the naive, 60's-style moral rhythm of Jonathan Livingston Seagull without the ocean breeze...
...encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...