Word: fodder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Evaluations made by staff and alumni are used more than the reports of teachers and principals, because the admissions committee knows who its interviewers are, and can take their tastes and idiosyncrasies into account. But secondary school reports may provide the crucial fodder for a hunch, Peterson says, "especially if the writer avoids cliches...
...Watts toy factory, Robert Hall, co-founder of Operation Bootstrap, announced: "I've brought some big newsmen along so they can write some more about what's not going on." One Watts resident was not having any: "We're tired of being treated as news fodder," she said. "Why are you here?" Atlantic's Michael Curtis answered: "Don't you think there is some value in finding out what the problem is?" Practically in chorus, the audience responded angrily, "Baby, everyone knows what the problem...
...conventional standards, such exhaust-pipe theatrics should have been made into an equally predictable film. The result, called Run, Angel, Run, is, however, something more than fodder for the teeny-bopper drive-in trade. For all that is patently naive and even painful to watch, there are occasional scenes, such as a dinner-table argument and a tense ride with some hobos on a fast freight, that have a kind of tough virtue...
...precisely this myth that allows unjust practices such as the blithe displacement of the less well-educated people unfortunate enough to live in areas where the University wants to expand; or that makes it OK to send our guys who couldn't stomach high school to Vietnam as cannon fodder, while deferring those who were able to sit quietly in class or had better spelling...
...demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive," says Laing. "You have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder." He calls We-Them "the ethic of the Gadarene swine," and its cataclysmic credo is "to remain true, one for all and all for one, as we plunge in brotherhood to our destruction...