Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towards passerby response. It's been minimal. Anyway, celebrate the collapse of another semester with Edgar Winter and scenic Boston's equally scenic James Montgomery, I was one of those people who passionately hated, "Sylvia's Mother", because I was taking it much too seriously. Then I heard Dr. Hook, on "VD Blues," do a tune called "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most," which was written by Shel Silverstein, and he's nothing if not weird. Meanwhile, the new album is called Sloppy Seconds and Silverstein's almost writing exclusively for Dr. Hook...
Foreman, at 6-3 and 217 pounds, seemed to dwarf Frazier not just in size but in strength as well. Joe charged right in as the fight got under way and scored with a couple of jabs and a hook. But that was about all he would get in, as Foreman unleashed his big guns. The Garden crowd went berserk...
...acerbity, the energy, the passionate demand that his students reach out further to excel-all these were characteristic of one of the nation's most distinguished teachers, Sidney Hook. And it was not an ordinary day at all. Hook had just turned 70 and, after 45 years, he was teaching his last class. For the occasion, he said he would break one of his rules and try to explain his own philosophy. "Though there is no substitute for intelligence, it is not enough," said Hook. "There are human beings who have intelligence but do not have the moral courage...
That envoi was typical of the man who once told a friend, "I've had a wonderful week; I've had a fight every day." Born to poverty in Brooklyn, educated under John Dewey at Columbia, Hook was one of the first college teachers to give an analytic course on Marxism, and his left-wing activities duly brought demands for his dismissal. Over the years he wrote and edited some 35 books (The Hero in History, Education for Modern Man), and he always relished a good argument-particularly an argument against dogmatism or dictatorship. In the mid-1930s...
...When Hook's last class ended, there were champagne toasts and talk of the future. He plans to write five more books, on politics, education, philosophy, and the tragic sense of life-and on his own life, to be entitled, naturally, Out of Step. In addition, said Hook, "I will be chopping wood and carrying manure for my wife's garden." Beyond that? At one point during his lecture, he held out a clenched fist and asked his students: "If I had within my hand the date at which you would die, how many of you would like...