Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn of the century, science and common sense alike dictated a shift away from idealism. "Damn the Absolute," roared William James, and the American pragmatists turned from principles and categories to results and facts. But the most effective rebellion against Hegelianism was carried out by two groups-the analytic philosophers, who prevail in U.S. and British universities, and the partisans of phenomenology and existentialism, who predominate in Western Europe. On some U.S. campuses, they are known as "the logicians and the lotus-eaters...
...wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...
...Kennedy." But after the Bay of Pigs he changed his mind. "I hope you kept a full account of that," he said to Schlesinger after a meeting. Schlesinger reminded the President that he had been told not to keep such records. "No, go ahead," Kennedy insisted. "You can be damn sure that the CIA has its records and the Joint Chiefs theirs. We'd better make sure we have a record over here...
...fake, he's been verbally conscious of the things which are wrong with Christmas. It seems a crystallization of all the things he considers "sick in our society"--he won't even admit that he still likes to see "A Christmas Carol" performed on TV or that those same damn carols do get to him now and them. But the Maiden Aunt knows, for beneath her dignity and austerity she is an incurable romantic. After all, those wreaths still do appear on colonial brass knockers...
Drummer Milford Graves played too loud, and should be harnessed. But what he plays is damn good. Talk about technique. You have to get rhythms from the accented strokes, because the slowest he got the whole night was about what would normally be called a "roll...