Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gale Merseth '67, another second-year student, heard Miss Leary recounting her experience in the classroom, Merseth said that there was a lot of discussion of the takeover and the bust, but in small groups which would not be as visible to an outsider as a mass meeting. But Merseth concluded that by and large "the Business School, in its tradition, goes on oblivious to the world around...
...patchwork mix we all live. We hope we are against the war for better reasons than that we are scared, and we hope that we want sex for other reason than fucking itself. But there is a dualism of high values and a debased reality in a lot of what we do. Our response to this dual nature may take the radical form of blaming corporate power for the evil we live, but this is often self-deluding and hopelessly illogical. In one scene of Greetings, a man is selling an underground newspaper called "The Rat" and he is shouting...
Greetings is doom comedy about searching amidst chaos, and the half-assed things young people do when they are confused. It's a good film. There are a lot of funny lines, and I laughed very hard. But someday we won't laugh about the draft, the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, or perverse sex. Someday Greetings will remind us of a time when we got hip, and made a Heaven out of a national Hell, but got debased, and arrived at something which was just a new hell all over again...
STRINDBERG MUST have known a tough lot of women. "The Father" portrays the gradual disintegration of the solitary male in a 19th century Swedish household. He is surrounded by women who range from naive and loving to unscrupulous and crafty in their oppressive imposition of their worlds and dreams upon him. The females are not totally to blame, however. Strindberg makes use of the early psychological theories of his time to show this father's personal weaknesses, subconscious mental cancers in his marriage, and obstacles to his fulfillment in his career as a soldier and scientist. These psychological afflictions...
...return to Christlike behavior in a world never conspicuously able to follow Christ's example. For Vonnegut, man's worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable, to the unbearable. Misused, modern science is its prime instrument. "I think a lot of people teach savagery to their children to survive," he observed recently. Then he added, saying it all, from Cain and Abel to the cold war, "They may need the savagery, but it's bad for the neighbors...