Word: great
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Highland," I interposed, thinking to appeal to his instinct for survival, "you're a Jew, aren't you? If we hadn't joined the fight against Hitler. you probably wouldn't be alive today. "Oh no, says he, "that was in Europe." His attitude then explains, I think, a great deal about his writing now: the glib, absurd equation of Hitler's factories of death and the war in Vietnam; the facile postmortem advice to the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka (they should have fought, he thinks, precisely because it would have made no difference) from someone who writes that...
...this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind of thing could not happen to them. (In these matters, the faculty have a great deal to learn from the student militants, who for all their factionalism, have a keener sense of solidarity; hence the universal cry for amnesty and the frequent demand for collective responsibility. We have all the more reason to be grateful to Prof. Stanley Hoffmann for his letter of reproof and indignation...
...that I don't know whether I should say "movie" or "film" or "picture." but I know when I've caught Canby with his foot in his mouth. Meyer would be all right, Canby said, if only he could get his mind off sex. Hah. What makes Meyer so great is that he can think of nothing else...
Athletic secretary Dan Levitt said he feels that Adams has a basically, solid team and a great defense. "But we're just not putting it all together on offense," he said...
...illusion. I observe, analyze, study, always with an eye to rationality. Coach Yovicsin, captain Cramer. Richie Szaro, I want you to win. I have your welfare and happiness in mind. I also have the standards of my profession, the heights of my reputation, in mind. The Indians are great runners, good passers, and able defenders of their goal line. Harvard's a bit better defensively, but is clearly second best everywhere else. In "Tell Laura I Love Her." Tommy entered this stock car race, in which he had little chance, so that he might win and thus buy Laura...