Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, down in New York, Jensen Jensen's family is entirely different. Living in a sprawling apartment on Riverside Drive, Jensen maintains a group marriage menage. His marriage partners are Carlotta, Emery, Marian, and Clancy. Most often Jensen is paired off with Carlotta, and Emery with Marian. At odd times...
"I'm sure I've learned a great deal more by being a father and husband that what I learned from books and classes," he adds.
Actually, it verges on caricature to blame pragmatic intellectuals for so much of the war. Both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson relied heavily on other kinds of advisers, notably the military, with its enthusiastic contingency plans. Moreover, it was primarily intellectuals who inspired a national dissidence sufficient to drive Lyndon...
Cohesion, however, need not preclude a little eclecticism. It has long been my intention to compile, someday, an encyclopedia of plot formulas, so arranged that a mere gloss would be sufficient to reduce even the shaggiest tale to several digits, say a "234 with a half-twist." Thankfully no such...
In 1956, Wolfe became a general reporter for the Springfield (Mass.) Union, leaving it two years later to become Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post. In Springfield, he relearned Lincoln Steffen's dictum that the cities are run on graft (and, now, its sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti...