Word: cramming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kremen is, I guess, what the boys over in William James would call a participant-observer. He's fiercely determined to cram as much experience into a soujourn away from New York as possible, reveling in bars and dirt and cheap hotels and the like. Anything that smacks of either youth culture or the working class or, best of all, a combination of the two, sends him into ecstasy. Smoking marijuana, for instance, especially in a factory or a commune, is always tremendously meaningful: "The smoke striking into my lungs sends my blood leaping. And soon the flying sparks...
...will probably play both warrior and drunk. In fact, he is a quiet, ambitious realist. "I want to cram everything into my life. I think it goes back to what I started with. I was nothing as a person and I had nothing. What could I be by the time I was 70? I thought, I am going to live. I don't want anything left at the end that I wanted to do. I want the marvelous knowledge that when I am finished, I have done everything...
Folk Orgy. WHRB will cram as many live folk performers into its studios as it can for the station's traditional reading period folk orgy on Sunday, May 19, from noon to 8 p.m. Call 495-4828 for information...
...hundreds of sensory impressions flow into the human brain and are promptly forgotten. On the next level is medium-term memory, which lasts from a few minutes to a few hours, and enables man to remember something like a telephone number just long enough to dial it or to cram for an examination. At the highest level is long-term memory, which is sifted out of all the impressions and information entering the brain and preserved because of its importance, usefulness or vividness...
...heavily mortgaged $190,000 home in the Maryland suburbs and is driven in a Government-owned Lincoln by a Secret Service agent to a tan town house across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. There, with a staff of eight, he sorts the 400 cartons of his papers that cram the three floors of the narrow building and overflow into another house next door...