Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cow" and "Bull...
William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, raises, among other things, some important questions about grading methods. In his essay, Perry contends that graders often tend to penalize students for "bull, relevance without facts," but frequently reward "cow, facts without relevance," because "cow" more than "bull" is an indication that the student has done the required work...
...calf, being 69 years old, is now a sacred cow. Jack Benny has returned to Broadway for the first time since he left Earl Carroll's Vanities in 1931 and went into radio. There he stood last week-in the redecorated, reopened, reclaimed-from-television, traditionalistic Ziegfeld Theater-telling the same jokes that he has been reworking for 30 years. Self-mitigation stories, each successive one is as fresh and original as an ocean wave; but the individual jokes are unimportant in themselves-it is their cumulative effect that has created this wonderful character that almost everyone would like...
When eventually Rama takes off for Europe to become a "holy vagabond," he has difficulty explaining himself to Europeans, let alone the Europeans to himself. But Rama does his best to embrace and smother with love the barbarous tribes of Paris, and records an impulse to lead a cow up to the altar at Notre Dame. Before long he is studying for his doctorate in southern France (Author Rao attended the University of Montpellier) and married to Madeleine, a bluestocking blonde who smells wonderfully-of thyme mostly. Soon they have a son, symbolically called Krishna, who symbolically dies...
...office in case the President dies. John Adams, first Vice President of the U.S., called it "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated...