Word: lot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only doing what a lot of people do at universities, hanging about, hoping for a job. And I was suffering from what Ogden used to call "hand-to-mouth disease." For a nominal sum, he had rented me an attic and it was on the way down from this attic that we suddenly got together and went on having the most enormous fun, I believe, two people have ever had--writing The Meaning of Meaning. It doesn't perhaps look as though it was such fun, but it was much of it written in the spirit of "Here...
What LBJ says about the past, however, can teach us a lot. We learn, for example, that "the history of the last 20 years. . . is the story of our persistent efforts to find a path to agreement with the Soviet Union and China and with other nations controlled by Communist parties." We learn why Western Europe has been in such bad shape recently. "The reason, quite simply, was the policy of the government in France." And we learn about the Soviet Union. "The main obstacle between our two great nations . . . has been the Communist ideology." These are important things...
...come to so many of us in the past few years: that the whole way of life in this country is fast becoming absurd and that until we face that fact we will be beating around the bush. It's only too bad--to the tune of a lot of lives lost and a lot of minds destroyed--that LBJ was trapped by his own awe of the past. Even in the handsome color photograph on the book's cover, he is looking backwards. He probably always will...
Coach John Lee was delighted with the selection. "Paul never has to be pushed. If you have nine guys like Paul, even without a great deal of ability, you're better off than with a lot of talent but no desire to work," Lee said. "He'll make an excellent captain; he's really gung-ho," he added...
...undergraduates and for the Teaching Fellows lucky enough to be attached to them, the rest of the graduate student population remains not only outside the pale but keenly aware of the contrast between the amenities provided for others and the social isolation that they recognize as their own lot...