Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body always ends by being a bore. Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life...
...understand their responsibility too. "Listen, man," one said, "the money ain't the only reason I'm doing this job. I'm doing something to teach 'the man.' He come in here all cocksure about the ghetto. These guys don't know nothing except their two cars and sweet life. I'm showing 'em where it's at. If they don't catch it today, they never going...
Personally, most Greek shipping men scorn the sybaritic life, preferring to live in.a quietly sumptuous style. They shuttle among offices and residences in several countries, unnoticed except by their captains (whom they instruct to call them at any hour of the night if a problem arises). Lemos, for example, maintains his principal office in London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai...
Anarchism, both as a doctrine and a political movement, has been pretty well defunct (except in Spain) for more than two generations. Yet today it is identifiable in the pattern of student unrest from Rome to Berkeley, and its black flag shows up persistently among the campus picket signs...
...relieved to get back to school where at least some of the people over thirty weren't really over thirty (it's only incidentally related to age) and most of the others were far too occupied writing treatises on the differences between Ramist and Aristotelian logic to bait you. Except, of course, for an occasional mini-confrontation with an interested, bespeckled administrator who wanted to know why you had to paint that fence and why you thought your boredom was more profound than that of an eight-year-old who got tired of the same old toys (you never said...