Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard usually goes into a game with M.I.T. over-confident and much too sure of itself. Lacking a tested right halfback, the Crimson may find it a little tougher than in the past, but there still isn't much of a reason to start being humble...
...because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life isn't all fun and games? that adults sometimes have to do things they don't like? For Chrissake, Brain, they're acting like a bunch of kids...
...clearcut Marxian dialectic. One had, on one hand, the Columbia ruling structure, he explained. Complete opposition to this would give rise to the exact opposite, which was, he said, a national democratic socialism. Just why national democratic socialism has to be the exact opposite of the Columbia ruling structure isn't at all clear to me. And it seems to me that Rudd decided it was so because it would best fit his argument...
...remember that Rudd isn't a speechmaker, and that what is easy to pick apart with careful semantics on the clear white page of the newspaper sounds a lot better when Rudd says it into a bullhorn under the towering buildings that make up Columbia's campus. Rudd is a revolutionary leader, and a pretty good one. Using the kind of movement jargon that keeps the revolutionaries at home with each other (such as calling everyone "brother") and by taking a tough stand against all "undemocratic" institutions at Columbia, he has held the Left together...
...that indoor-outdoor carpeting isn't soft either, and it doesn't wear well," Miss Porritt said. "We talked to architects all last spring, and for the sake of maintenance and quiet, cork is the most satisfactory substance...