Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sidney Hook: Above All, Freedom...
...senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, Hook is emeritus professor of philosophy at New York University...
...album from there on, "When the Whip Comes Down." Jagger shouts from amidst a dense barrage of guitars riffing, and tells the story of a gay man who tries to make it in the City as a garbage collector. As with so many of the Stones' rockers, the hook is Mick and Keith howling the chorus, the only clearly intelligible words...
...smart-ass assaults me or my cigarette with scissors, spray, gubernatorial lemonade or whatever, that person is going to get a right hook...
Read treats this new wrinkle in an otherwise familiar story as fact-until, in a final section oddly called "Corroboration," he suggests that the Nazi connection was another tickle, a hoax designed to hook the publisher. Read then exits rather sheepishly with the classic copout, "Let each reader decide upon its veracity for himself." In an era of recycled journalism and package publishers who may be soon calling books "entertainment systems," everybody aboard The Train Robbers appears to have it both ways. Even the reader, who can spook himself with the thought that the SS rides again or ignore this...