Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless some academic genius invents a substitute for grades, this generation is seemingly chained to a double life: utter classroom sobriety, relieved by afterhours explosion. Princeton, where rioters went berserk last spring, has its Saturday night "cult of the grubby"-dungareed dancers twisting in once elegant clubs. Bizarre idiocy is...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration...
To me it is utter folly that one should criticize Lord Home's appointment on the basis that he is an aristocrat and therefore has little knowledge of, and even less compassion for, the problems of the laborer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unquestioned champion of the American workingman and...
Answering Wilson's gibe that the choice of a 14th earl as Prime Minister is an "elegant anachronism," he said dryly: "I suppose Mr. Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the 14th Mr. Wilson. If all men are equal, well, that's a very good...
Perilous Desolation. These theories, which might have made Keats the first modern poet 100 years ahead of time if he had lived to carry them out, far outstripped his poetic practice. But they provide a fascinating commentary on the elegant debate that he carried on with himself in poem after...