Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Class of 1969 is a famous class because it feels passionately about things, wants to rid the world of evil, etc. We hate the famous War in Vietnam, and we take various kinds of dope, and most of all we are full of energy and idealism. Yes. Of course, at times our zeal is misdirected (as, alas was Hitler's). At times, we want things too fast, too much (this being a product of our childhood, of course, since our parents grew up in the depression, then made it, then wanted to give us all the advantages, etc.) But alas...
...Service Cross for heroism in France. Earlier, he had served in the Philippine Islands and from 1911 to 1914 took part in several expeditions against the "hostile" Moros in Mindanao. He served in Mexico with the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. After his return from Mexico, he came to Harvard as Professor of Military Science and Tactics...
...become so bad that even the tourists and the women have begun to catch on. Alarmed by the falling attendance, Minister of Tourism Manuel Fraga Iribarne is calling for "a re-evaluation to retrieve bullfighting from crisis." Without some drastic changes soon, Spain's most famous spectacle may eventually disappear. You said as much yourself 37 years ago, Papa: "There are two things that are necessary for a country to love bullfights. One is that the bulls must be raised in that country and the other that the people must have an interest in death." You never foresaw...
...graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which we have so long been famous." Instead, she consciously sought to use her belief as the light by which she saw, making her religion implicit in her vision rather than explicitly intrusive in her work. If the theme of redemption by Jesus Christ lay at the center of her work, this was simply because "what...
Despite such goings-on, at Cornell Nabokov's course in Modern Fiction (also known as Dirty Lit) became famous. Nabokov detested "oldfashioned human interest criticism." It consists, he once reprovingly wrote oldfashioned, human-interest Critic Edmund Wilson, "of removing the characters from an author's imaginary world to the imaginary, but generally far less plausible, world of the critic, who then proceeds to examine these displaced characters as if they were 'real people.'" He refused to deal in such "dreadful things as trends," or offer traditional chatter about themes and schools of literature. Instead, he performed brilliant, instant autopsies...