Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sample Distortion No. 2: Early in "We" Shapiro quotes me claiming I was ahead of my time, that I originated student activism, and so on: that is he makes me sound like a real jerk. This is the "communists are megelomaniacs" bait. However a little later on, Shapiro does a complete flip-flop and, as if he'd never hinted I was so self-centered, says: "Jared strongly dislikes talking about himself." Shapiro then goes on to attack me for this, saying I've dissolved my personality into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions...
...tried rational tactics, I tried emotional ones--nothing worked. I told her it was almost Christmas time. She didn't listen. She was wearing the plastic Santa Claus head with the pull-jerk red light nose that she wore every day from December first until vacation. It mocked me as I pleaded with her to change her mind, or at least change my grade. But she was adamant. So was I. Finally it was a battle between me, with the guidance office on my side, and Miss Davis, with God on hers. The outcome: she changed my grade with merciless...
...guarantee of understanding (as Thoreau well recognized when he remarked that if he knew for a certainty that a man was coming to his house with the conscious design of doing him good, he would run for his life). In this particular case Mr. Garin's knee-jerk panacea of conscription must be looked at a lot more closely and must not just be adopted because a certain Richard M. Nixon happened to support the all-volunteer military--after all so did George McGovern, Henry Rosovsky, Playboy magazine and Barry Goldwater...
...tenth inning, the Mets' Bud Harrelson was thrown out in a close play at the plate while trying to score on a fly ball, and an apparent New York triumph dissolved with the jerk of umpire Augie Donatelli's thumb...
...force Chrysler to modernize some of its obsolescent urban plants, where grim working conditions have caused bitter rank-and-file protests. Beyond that, the company had seemed to be responsive to many union demands. Said Douglas Fraser, chief U.A.W. negotiator at Chrysler: "The company has shown the least knee-jerk reaction to our proposals...