Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of them were on the junior ski patrol at Winter Park, and when Jim heard about patrolling and its responsibilities--watching for fallen skiers, providing first aid, packing the snow on unskied runs so they could be opened, and performing a painstaking "sweep" at day's end to make sure no one was hurt or lost on the mountain--he knew he wanted to join, too. He was 13 at the time; the minimum age for junior patrolmen...
Perhaps the most important part of this outspokenness was its insistence upon the Eastern European and Soviet dissidents as models for a truly progressive liberalism in France. Ionesco sees the very fact that the voices of these intellectuals could still be heard under the mechanisms of state oppression as an optimistic sign for France's censored writers. It is proof that with a spirit of "real and genuine liberalism" there can be hope of non-doctrinaire artistic expression...
...Ionesco's central idea is a nihilistic one: now that the new philosophers are being heard, humanity will soon reach a stage where politics won't be necessary at all. How will this come about? Through the sheer force of the human spirit itself. No revolution will be necessary, according to Ionesco, because the metaphysical truths expressed by the new philosophers will rise above ideological dogma and be naturally understood by the masses. These ideas will supercede even such bourgeois inventions as language and literature themselves, which Ionesco in his plays shows to be filled with media-jargon and platitudes...
...Monday night. I am sitting at my desk. I am working, really. The radio is on. The DJ is talking about Stephane Grapelli, Django Reinhardt, and Le Hot Club de France. Then he plays the best music that I have heard on the radio since December, 1958, when I was born...
...Quad was not the first choice of Peter Hogness '76. He had also heard that Dunster House had artistic and political people. During his freshman year, Hogness lived in all-male Holworthy, and knew only his roommates well. He says the Quad was "more social, in a relaxed way, not riddled with conventions and scoring points...