Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Empress Catherine of Russia had a passion for almost anything that could fit in her boudoir. That (and she) took in quite a lot, but the insatiable sovereign nevertheless beat it down to the stables where, when the grooms gave out, she dallied with the dobbins. (She met her death, they say, while mounting a horse in a somewhat unusual fashion...
...very much concerned with getting the grades and getting into medical school. He was a nice guy just caught up too much in trying to be a professional and successful. He made a lot of sacrifices toward that end. Anyway, given these two roommates, it all didn't quite fit the Harvard image...
...been moving very steadily, very smoothly up the ranks of a society of which I do not feel part. I really do not value money, do not value status, although I would enjoy having positions of status to show I am fit to handle that kind of responsibility and I would have more freedom to do as I please. But I could not take a position of influence if the only way to do it would be to perpetuate a system which in many respects I find corrupt, ineffectual, impersonal. The threat involved in keeping under the system is that...
...going to make use of my mind. What will be required of me will be crude enough so I can stand outside of it. Whereas here what's required of me is the utilization of my most personal and most difficult ability--the ability to reform my mind to fit a certain way of thinking. Thta's too much pressure...
...splendid self-expression of all royal stylists-degenerated so far that one royal prince built a marble mausoleum for a pet monkey named McCarthy. Similar distortions of value took place in more important aspects of public life. Diplomacy, once the French national art, so deteriorated that it came to fit the job description given by Beaumarchais, author of The Marriage of Figaro: "Spread spies, pension traitors, loosen seals, intercept letters...