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Word: jerkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vipers, Polemicist-Novelist Philip Wylie has a certain reputation to live up to. In his own way, he turned the crank letter into a literary form. In that eruption 29 years ago, he added to the sum of human choler by announcing, among other things: "Gentlemen, mom is a jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mom's Kids | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

While good liberal credentials do not necessarily mean that Bok will enact some of the more radical changes which must be made at Harvard, it can be said with certainty that Bok's liberalism is not of the freeze-dried knee-jerk variety. As Law School dean, he has consistently impressed his students with his accessibility and desire to listen and discuss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Bok | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

...what you want is a fiend; you want a sadistic fiend because that is what you are. You only reflect on me what you are inside of yourselves, be cause I don't care anything about any of you. If I could, I would jerk this microphone off and beat your brains out with it, because that is what you deserve. You kill things better than you, and what can I say to you that you don't already know? "I don't care what you do with me. I have always been in your cell. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Sermon on Society | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...this guise, Agathon saves the book too. With his rambling wit, his irrelevancies, rages, blunderings, unfairnesses, with his tender-rough efforts to jerk his friend Pecker to wisdom through the muck of the world, he emerges as one of those scapegrace saints who have adorned literature from Socrates to Gulley Jimson. Robert Wernick

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seer v. Slob | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Gould thinks every director is Fellini. When the picture is finished, he's already David Lean. But by the time it's released, he's Mervyn Le Roy. Let's face it," he says in joking anticipation. "One day Elliott's going to say that Bergman's a jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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