Word: drunken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists. At M.I.T., some students park in a remote lot, heft bicycles off the roofs of their cars, pedal the remaining two miles to class...
Today, however, he decides to go to Paris-apparently to give life one more chance, actually to squander his last sou of hope. One by one he sees his friends again; one by one they are revealed as social Parisites much like himself. In drunken despair he cries: "I cannot love! I cannot touch! And if I do touch I feel nothing!" Le morningafter, he starts packing that...
Underlying many of these ideas is the observation that home situations in depressed neighborhoods often prevent meaningful learning. What Lowe wants to do, both in the schools and at the Boys' Club, is to counter the ill-effects of apathetic or drunken parents and squalid living conditions at home. If for no other reason, Lowe wants to maximize education simply to district children from corrupting home environments. Lowe feels that if classes were more interesting and useful to students, and teachers more interested and receptive. Roxbury could become a good place to love in less than a generation...
Monk's lifework of 57 compositions is a diabolical and witty self-portrait, a string of stark snapshots of his life in New York. Changing meters, unique harmonies and oddly voiced chords create the effect of a desperate conversation in some other language, a fit of drunken laughter, a shout from a park at night. His melodies make mocking twins of naivete and cynicism, of ridicule and fond memory. Ruby, My Dear and Nutty are likably simple; Off Minor and Trinkle Tinkle are so complex that among pianists only Monk and his early protege, Bud Powell, have been able...
...Castro may be working himself up to a major, Panama-style confrontation over Guantanamo. Immediately after the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, Castro's radio started appealing to Cuban workers on the base to return to the "motherland." A few weeks ago, Havana's propagandists railed that "drunken U.S. Marines indiscriminately fired their machine guns at Cuban workers." Castro militiamen have resumed their rock-throwing at U.S. sentries, recently fired a burst of machine-gun fire over the heads of a Marine squad inside the fence...