Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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catch-edged tones build to a bluesy intensity on Damn If I Know, and on Frankenstein, to outright urgency...
...intellectual hierarchy stifles creativity; it is hostile to the fresh insights of minds that have not yet been processed in America's academic distilleries. In an environment changing so quickly that textbooks become obsolescent before they are printed, the whole idea of teachers pontificating about what they "know" to passive, uncritical students is dangerously archaic...
...where they could find enough to last through several lifetimes. I perhaps should not say that their work is pointless, for when they have completed the catalogue, a lover who finds his beloved smiling at him mysteriously can look up the smile in the Brannigan-Humphries Ethological Index and know at once that it is smile No. 723 classified as "Elusive Loving Smile...
...think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say "Yippee," you know...
...American type as pure, enduring and applicable as George F. Babbitt ever was. Mr. Bridge's unwitting and rather dated dilemma, Connell suggests, is capable of pointing a lesson for today. The old, defensive virtues-the living of life rationally, correctly and righteously-are no longer enough to know the world for what it is or meet more than its meanest challenges...