Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article and the box on Nabokov were positively brilliant. They had all the best features of writing. They were condensed, informative, amusing and so forth but they were something more: eloquent. The erudition, laughter and whimsy of Nabokov himself seems to have rubbed off on your reporters and writers...
Informed that many students-including the authors of the petition-say that the statement indicates the Committee will suspend at least some students, Alan E. Heimert '49, the Committee spokesman, said the statement merely put forth "Some of the implications and questions raised by the petition." Heimert said the statement grew out of a discussion between the Committee and the three authors of the petition...
...recently with the impression that the North Vietnamese capital was cleaner and more sprightly than he had ever found it. According to his tourist's-eye view, cafes and beauty shops were full of customers, food was plentiful and moderately priced, and Hanoi's women had blossomed forth for spring in new pink blouses. Boats on the artificial lake in the city's Unification Park were newly equipped with outboard motors for the use of visitors...
...campus revolutionaries, who are of anarchist and nihilist persuasion, are so much more dangerous is that they can point to success after success of their disrupting tactics. The greatest danger, then, is presently the readiness with which violence is afterward excused, and the seemingly convincing arguments which are bought forth to justify it before and after the act. Worst and most dangerous of all, there seems to be a tendency in our society to legitimize the results of violence so that, as Kant put it, the God of success afterwards serves as advocate for the violent action that preceded...
...dinner conversation thrives on little disagreements, contrapuntal, and often not really resolved. In one exchange, Vera begins by explaining the mating ritual of the crested grebe, a grubby little bird which frequents the lake. They never touch, she says, waggling a delicate finger, but wiggle one foot back and forth. "No, no, no, no, no," says Vladimir, who has let this get by during a ticklish entente with a waiter. "They waggle their heads!", and he begins waggling vigorously...