Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jazz or any other music doesn't mean anything if you just play for yourself. You've got to project it to people...
...Here, Hydén opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals, he said, their protein synthesis doubles within an hour. But he was careful to insist: "This does not mean that an elixir of life has been found." Hard facts remaining to be determined, he said, are whether this is a "functionally valuable or a nonsense protein," and whether the effect will last for days, hours or years...
...comedy and the source of his sufferings. He tells of the time that he and The Monkey picked up a whore in Rome and took her to bed. "I can best describe the state I subsequently entered as one of unrelieved busyness. Boy, was I busy! I mean there was just so much...
Hating Father did not mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...
...body's collective prestige to broad issues. It is conceivable that a large number of student and Faculty members of the Board could increase Overseer responsibility for Faculty appointments, but, except in the case of choosing a new President or new dean of a faculty, this practice would mean an unhealthy reversal of the University's decentralization process. In fact, the Faculty's powers (and indirectly, the students' influence) may be reduced by an active Board...