Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technically adjust' upward." The student New Left, which shares a taste for six-syllable words with Government bureaucracy, has concocted a collection of substitute terms for use in politics. To "liberate," in the context of campus uproars, means to capture and occupy. Four people in agreement form a "coalition." In addition to "participatory democracy," which in practice is often a description of anarchy, the university radicals have half seriously given the world "anticipatory Communism," which means to steal. The New Left, though, still has a long way to go before it can equal the euphemism-creating ability of Government...
...other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an interesting date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline form; make sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate:" Be Specific:" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your...
Limes very seldom have groups of close friends, and never cliques. Instead they travel mostly alone, or with a serious boyfriend. And their traveling often takes the form of gliding. Perhaps a little too thin, some cultivate a mysterious, ethical, or merely composed look. They are most conscious of their sex and often the most beautiful of the girls. They decorate their rooms with taste, and generally have more concern for art and individuality than do their fellow students. And a search for self-expression, for eternal, almost mythic verities, is implied in the adjectives they use to compliment another...
...dividend, the Coop must cut corners wherever it can. The rebate has to come from somewhere if it doesn't come from higher prices. You can't have a superlative store and fixturing. $5-an-hour sales people, maintain discount prices, provide a lot of service in the form of special orders and still expect to make a high profit...
...would explain, with the appropriate tone of annoyance to my outraged relatives.) What was a nice boy from Boston doing with a roommate like that? The fault, I'll admit, was my own. When it came time for me to fill out the administration's virtually irrelevant roommate request form, I was half through a second tortured reading of The Sound and the Fury. No, I told my parents, I don't care what race he belongs to, or what religion he practices, or whether or not he plays a musical instrument. In fact, I think I'd even like...