Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong. Stanford has its fill of brilliant wonks and serious academicians. But the level of intellectual intensity doesn't compare to what you'll find at Harvard. Introspective souls do exist at Stanford even though they don't have the green and pallid "Underground Man" countenance of the driven Harvard neurotics. Discovery through suffering is not high on the priority list at Stanford mostly because environmental advantages abound...
...country would Fruit Loops, small crunchy spheres of fruit-flavored cereal packaged in bright cardboard cartons by Kellogg's, be the order of the day. Nor, of course, could the rest of the scene have occurred anywhere but in America. Nowhere else would there be an arena-sized hall filled with tables rented out to people who gather for the sole purpose of playing poker. Nowhere else would two men be able to fill their pockets in such an effortless way. Nowhere else would Bill and Charlie become friends so quickly, nor be assaulted with such a vengeance and lose...
Though Eisenhower called Nixon "the most valuable member of my team," it was a poorly kept secret that he considered his Vice President "too political," too unimaginative, too much a man without real roots, to fill the top job. He even made a stab at keeping Nixon off the ticket for a second term. But Nixon rallied grass-roots Republican support and Ike abruptly caved...
...influence on surrealism and its frequently astonishing beauty. That beauty, however, is not in the structure; his nymphs have a way of looking like Delacroix houris, but boned, and one may look in vain-except in the hundreds of tiny and miraculously spontaneous oil sketches and color notes that fill the Musée Moreau in Paris-for that dynamism that animated Moreau's romantic predecessors, Delacroix and Chassériau. Rather, it is a delight of surface. To fix it, Moreau resorted to what he called the "beauty of inertia." He noted of Michelangelo, whom he adored...
...month there, as anyone who has been there will tell you, is absolutely insufficient unless one is a Middle East scholar who is in touch constantly with not only the immediate political but the long-range historical issues as well. Smart as she is, Sontag simply does not fill the bill...