Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination, and simply presented volunteers with the possible dangers and previous results. No physiological disasters, such as struck the Oklahoma elephant full of LSD-25, have been reported (although the newness of psilocybin, and the difficulty of obtaining fit from the Swiss supplier, may in part account for this). The evidence, even from the Harvard Medical School, is that physiologically, psilocybin is slightly more dangerous than an aspirin...
Schrade attacked Wagner for claiming to be the agent of fate and thereby "forsaking all that music as an art had ever been." He condemned Wagner for changing myth to fit his artistic purposes. The composer "even presumed to be a maker of myth" and turned his music dramas from the "true course of the sagas." Bayrouth was in his view a farce, and was not the semblance of Greek theatre...
...important academic undertaking"? This is naivete of the most harmful sort. The reason that so many seniors are tempted to drop their thesis writing in favor of CLGS is that they perceive that the thesis is essentially nothing more than paperwork drudgery, enervating and mind-killing. Not all theses fit this description, but most do, so why Puritanically castigate a student who is wise enough to see that CLGS will give his mind more freedom and stimulation? Why not give him his freedom, instead of reacting with the pedantic hysteria that several departments have countered with by threatening to give...
...consider themselves highly skilled craftsmen (as, indeed, they are), not mere employees who are only important so long as their employers consider them important. The I.T.U. members want to be able to hand their jobs on to their progeny, or otherwise dispose of them as they and theirs see fit. For this same reason, they have "protected" their jobs by indulging in a variety of make-work projects when new machinery is introduced. For example, when automatic typesetters are used to set such tricky and time-consuming material as stock market reports and box scores, union...
...Pope. The poet, Cibber explained, had once been "slyly seduced to a certain house of carnal recreation near the Haymarket" by a young nobleman who wanted to "see what sort of figure a man of [Pope's] size, sobriety and vigor (in verse) would make when the frail fit of love had got into him." Cibber, waiting in an adjoining room, became worried about Pope's health and the future of English poetry. He rushed through the door, "found this little hasty hero, like a terrible tomtit, pertly perching upon the mount of love" and pulled him away...