Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know where people get this idea I'm so sinister," says Lehrer. "They have this idea I'm a lot older than I am--that could be the record jacket, of course--or 'He's not at all the way he sounds.' It's not that I'm that raffish. Perfectly nice people joke this...
...stuff appeals to a certain minority audience--educated, intelectual people, I suppose--and if they're not there, the performance that night gets a poor response. That's why I prefer concerts to night clubs. When somebody is willing to lay out money for tickets to hear me, I know they're interested. Almost anybody is likely to wander into a night club, though, and they may not be in tune with my 'great artistry...
...unmistakable terms, Eisenhower lot the American people, the Soviet Union and the world know that the United States has no intention to "try to purchase peace by forsaking two million free people of Berlin...
...feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars, and native dating. Intellectually, there is little contact; such as there is stays mainly in the of politics, or the racial problem in our South...
...underlying tone of circumspection and distrust, intensified by the double thrust of college and community, can but impose an extreme self-consciousness on the student. This creates a kind of intellectual narcissism, as well as a false identification of self-consciousness with self-knowledge that produces the familar know-it-all pose for which Harvard is so famous...