Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they weren't the real enemy. And the students who invaded University Hall yesterday know a lot better than I knew then, who the real enemy...
There are a lot of people who are very confused by everything that has happened here over the last two weeks. Erik Erikson said at lunch the other day that our "objective referents" have been destroyed. Much of the order has gone out of our lives--things we believed in like the authority of the faculty, the benignness of the deans have suddenly been snatched away, he said. It is only natural that we are confused; Erikson said that he was confused, and he intimated that even Stanley Hoffmann may be confused...
...search for why, and we become hopelessly bogged down in worldly metaphors, which are our second problem. We believe in Boyle's Law and various aspects of Newtonian Physics, and so we think that "outbreaks," "explosions," "eruptions," etc. occur when there is a lot of pressure built up. So when the newspapers and everyone else say that the campus "exploded," our mind moves to the physical metaphor. Next, it moves to the causes of explosion--what enormous pressures have built up and have no place to go and go explode? And so we look for the reasons: the channels...
...going to try to win. Then, there is a much larger group of more realistic people attempting to finish in respectible time. Finally, there are the clowns who are out for the fun of it, perhaps hoping to finish. But without the clowns, the Marathon would lose a lot of its color...
...would also lose a lot of color it Jock Semple disassociated himself from the great event. Jock used to try to evict the girls from the race since they are illegal, but he's given up on that. Now he just curses at anything that attracts his attention and condemns the jokers in his Marathon. But Jock likes a few people...