Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller feels that Britain's classical actors are better than America's because there is a tradition of classical theatre in England which Americans lack. "The classical theatre is borrowed over here," he said, "In Britain, it is indigenous, and there is an indigenous staff to perform it. I am afraid that you do make quite a mess of Shakespeare...
...toilet combing hair pressing pants walking dogs eating dinner reading books making love laughing crying explaining threatening proving sigh for it all because sigh is the bass note. Sigh for religion and sigh for the irreligious sigh for the relevant, sigh for death and life and sigh for a lack of spice and sigh for a lack of taste and sigh for too much ketchup and sigh for no more cigarettes sigh for biology sigh for bankers sigh for the good old days sigh for the future sigh with dispatch easily naturally inconspicuously oafishily amorally bitterly without emotion sigh...
...summer at the Amherst College commencement; the class valedictorian declared: "Our parents and our teachers believe in adulthood and maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void with their own lifestyles. The decade's compulsive clichés-"relevant" and "meaningful"-suggested a desperate search for identity...
...things that struck me first about the girl and continued to strike me was the lack of sophistication of the things she said and the simultaneous intensity of her conviction. It was obvious, even before she told me, that she had not had much education. The things she said I might have heard before, but not with the same "naive" intensity. The feeling with which she spoke each word overwhelmed my college-conditioned tendency to dismiss without a second thought any ideas expressed poorly or in cliches. I knew nothing about her, but I could tell that whoever and whatever...
...lower potential for representation in white-collar occupations. And the notion of compensatory atcion is perfectly justifiable on practical and moral grounds. Thus, the University's assertion that 9.3 per cent is a "correct" figure shows not only at best sloppy use of data, but also shows a typical lack of sensitivity to black demands at Harvard and in the world. Were Harvard truly interested in meeting such a quota, moreover, they would acknowledge the necessity of meeting related OBU demands as well: black workers can never compete for available jobs unless job agencies in the black community are given...