Word: hithering
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...education, from what education is and who should have it down to what should be done about campus parking and organized song-fests. The book is controversial--if I may invoke an overused word. And I hope it will have a wide enough circulation to stir up ardent debates hither and yon. Personally, I find little to disagree with; but whether one endorses his conclusions or not, Eble has lined up the main arguments on both sides of each issue without omission and with welcome clarity...
...dakkochan is the brainchild of Yoshihiro Suda, 27, planning chief for Japan's toymaking Tsukudaya Co. Last February Suda began experimenting with a U.S. made plastic-and-cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls have hair bows...
...line grew heavy as lead, When up rose a creature whose every feature Resembled her husband dead. "Come hither to me in the deep blue sea." And he gave such a tug on the line That he dragged her down in her seagreen gown. While she sang "Forever Thine...
...also a "quintessence of dust," and "men must endure their going forth even as their coming hither." Shakespeare's tragic hero is called upon to face the unfaceable. Critic Walter Kaufmann has noted that the tragic hero, as Shakespeare conceived him, fits Aristotle's description of the "great-souled man" ("He claims much and deserves much"). One reason why the Willy Lomans, the Blanche DuBoises and the poor, driven people of O'Neill are pseudo-tragic and fail to exalt an audience is because they are small-souled. They claim little and deserve
...showing the razor cutting a lion in half, with blood dripping all over the poster. The bestselling bicycle is made by a company that distributes posters showing an African waving gaily as he outpaces a pursuing lion. On the other hand, the African is prudish, does not like come-hither cheesecake. Companies have found that the surest appeal is to stress power, virility and the image of wealth. The most touchy taboo is politics. Barclays changed the color of its giveaway pencils from blue to cream after it discovered that blue was the color of one local political party...