Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest problem with this film is that the audience sees the comic premise coming, and while there are plenty of surprises, there are also a lot of gags that one would expect in this sort of comedy. One can often easily guess the next measure of desperation to which Cleese will be driven, whether it be stealing transport or lying to the authorities. So, while the film has plenty of paralysing funniness, it also has long stretches of British dryness and worn-out conventions...
WELL FOLKS, GUESS WHAT? Call it shallow, fickle or anything else you want. But this year I was with you all the way. The Yanks never had a real shot (and Steinbrenner does wear on you after a bit). Maybe you thought I would switch caps for the Series and start chanting "Let's Go Mets." Not on your life. I'm a loyal New Yorker, to be sure, but the Mets are nothing to me. They didn't exist when I was a kid, and loyalties are shaped by those early years of splendor in the grass and glory...
...recall asking myself why big leaguers never cry when they wiff. I guess at the time I figured it was because they were grown men and grown...
...Kaplan '89, made it into the anthology. He submitted "Development of an Idea," a mystifying semiparody of philosophical jargon, to Yale's admissions office. In his essay Kaplan circumlocutiously traces an idea he first had at age 12, which developed into empathy with the Nietzschian comment, "Nobody will guess how you looked in your morning, you sudden sparks and wonders of my solitude." Kaplan closed his essay by appealing to admissions officers, "This essay is a try at letting others guess...
What Mansfield dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...