Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never break the spine of a book, John Fist's father once admonished; it's as wrong as killing a helpless animal. So when Sophomore Fist flopped down in his dormitory room at Sheldon College to do a little studying one night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman...
...wrote: "The comic spirit is not wild or vehement, its laughter is not shrill." Black humor has a long tradition that reached its apex in Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic. In the end, they have left a society almost without true humorists...
...classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered, wide-hipped urban Jew helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss. I saw tongues"). Jews, of course, have no priority on black humor. One of its darkest stars, Terry Southern, a Texas gentile, has been operating successfully in the black for years with ham-handed satires on pornography (Candy...
...Even among peoples normally friendly to us, our motives are widely misinterpreted. The spectacle of Americans inflicting grievous injury on the lives of a poor and helpless people of different race and color produces reactions among millions of people throughout the world profoundly detrimental to [our] image...
With one match to go, Harvard now has a total of 66 points against its opponents. With two matches to go, Princeton has 53 points. Therefore, if Harvard can defeat Yale by the minimum 5-4 margin, Princeton must defeat both helpless Cornell and powerful Yale by 9-0 scores in order to equal Harvard's total point output. If Harvard defeats Yale by a 6-3 margin or worse, it's all over for Princeton...