Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, the men who will do the real work in the convention are the professional politicos : national committeemen, congressional bigshots, state and city bosses. The ordinary delegate will have little to do but enjoy himself, politick like mad-and vote as he's told. For the first two days he will hear hours of party-line oratory, approve committee reports and the party platform, wander wearily off for a drink...
Pericles or Pinto. He might also find a good answer to an old, half-serious controversy: What will be the long-range effect of Southern California's bland climate upon humans who enjoy...
...anyone doubts that baseball is the favorite U.S. game, there are statistics to prove it. Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a whopping 39% of Americans enjoy watching baseball more than any other sport.- Next in line of popularity: foot ball (17%), basketball (10%), horse racing (4%), boxing...
...pictures philosophers asleep under Paris bridges and ragged princes mooning among the ruins of their family palaces; his work fairly groans with heartache. But Berman himself, whose painted gloom has earned him a solid reputation throughout Europe, has claimed to be "divinely happy" ("It's just that I enjoy melancholy things...
Veblen was mocking a process as old as civilization, and it was not necessary to be a radical in order to enjoy his satire. When his book appeared, he was mortified to find that it delighted many of the "leisure class"-the only class, perhaps, which could fully appreciate the conspicuous haughtiness of Veblen's leisurely, elaborate prose. It became Veblen's fate to fall between two stools-between those who thought he was just funny and those who thought he was plain dangerous...