Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hall, who was supposed to be an obedient understudy for the more famous Dunda, has had a truly remarkable sophomore season and has almost turned Dunda into a piece of excess equipment. There should be plenty of opportunities for both boys to score and shine today...
...drugs written with Leary for the journal Religious Education, Dr. Walter Houston Clark of Andover Newton Theological School argued that the structure of the drugs is similar to that of a family of chemicals in the body known as indoles. It may be, he suggested, "that a naturally occurring excess of the indoles might predispose some people to certain kinds of mystical experience." Says Paul Lee, an instructor at M.I.T. who took LSD while a student at Harvard Divinity School: "The pity is that our everyday religious experience has become so jaded, so rationalized that to become aware...
...called by Vladimir Nabokov the greatest ever written in Russia. Schmidt's version happily avoids the ponderousness of other efforts, and is marked by smoothness and consistency. However, it contains an oppressive use of "damn," "bastards," "sons of bitches" and similar expressions. In moderation they can be funny, in excess they quickly lose their impact. "Bastards" is not an inherently funny word, as Schmidt would have us believe...
...Charles. These pipes are supposed to carry waste from Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, and parts of Boston to a treatment plant in Boston Harbor. But the trunk lines now operating are too small to handle all of the flow. So the MDC is forced to release the excess volume into the Charles through a number of overflow valves...
Satire has seldom shown a more horrifying face. Nevertheless, in Richardson as in Fielding, satire is not the essence of what is said. The animal ferocity of Tom Jones is essentially an excess of animal spirits, of roaring ungovernable physical vitality. Vitality is what Tom Jones is really all about: the terrible vitality of Fielding's England, the primitive illimitable will to live the whole of life. You are a pack of dirty dogs. Fielding told his fellow men, but then every dog will have his day. The great novelist saw all the slavering horror of life...