Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then he goes off on wild tangents, stringing together stupid analogies and speculating about the similarities between purine molecules and some futuristic society in Andromeda out of a science fiction novel he happened to find interesting. This type of rambling based on half-baked ideas that should have been kept in the oven doesn't exactly constitute the stuff of which great works of non-fiction are made...
...course, when Trilling met her undergraduates of the '70s Harvard had not yet adopted equal access admissions, nor had Radcliffe changed the scholarship policies that for so long have kept the income brackets of Radcliffe students higher than those of Harvard's. Both those changes may have the effects Trilling seeks in her suggestion that only the Colleges admit students "solely on the strength of a students's intention to be a wage-earner." Trilling's suggestion seems somewhat ill-considered, as it would--and she admits this--inevitably reduce the number of women at Harvard, even though it would...
During the heady years of the Warren Court, civil rights lawyers kept beating a path to the doorways of federal courthouses, bypassing state courts whenever possible. "Civil rights lawyers became lazy," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They knew their best chance was to federalize everything, to get to the U.S. Supreme Court as fast as they could." Says Oregon Associate Justice Hans A. Linde, disapprovingly: "A generation of Americans was brought up to believe that all law and all wisdom come from these nine men in a marble temple." Even some liberal state court judges appreciated...
Philip Glass: North Star (Virgin Records). Nothing happens in the usual sense. Glass composes by an additive process. Short melodies are repeated dozens, even hundreds of times, while new elements are gradually introduced and events are kept to a minimum. The composer writes for amplified keyboards, winds and voices, using as tools of his craft a pulsating rhythm, overlapping figures and a moving chromatic bass line. The overall effect is soothing, with strong yet not dogmatic liturgical overtones. Fans of German rock groups may spot similarities between Glass and Kraftwerk. Those classically oriented will think of Johann Pachelbel...
Hugo spent a good deal of his genius in the prone position: he fathered a sizable family, kept an adoring mistress for half a century, and found time for countless other sexual adventures. Yet he had enough spare energy to become the 19th century's grand seigneur of French literature, hammering out poems, plays, novels and essays as other men might manufacture horseshoes...