Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe if COCA members would mention one word concerning the hypocrisy of trying to terrify Harvard students into thinking that they may have to fight in a war which, were it to actually occur, would almost certainly never involve them, I could have some respect for their strategy. Maybe if they would be as outspoken in their condemnation of human rights abuses perpetrated by the left as they are of those committed by the right, I could admire what they did last week. But they haven...
...Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more than a generation. It was one of those rare times when...
...supply elsewhere. The Comedy Channel, with its all-clip format, could wind up looking like nonstop previews of coming attractions. (Like MTV, the Comedy Channel is acquiring most of its clips free, since producers assume they will help the movies and videos from which they are excerpted.) Not to mention the indignity of seeing classic films and TV shows strip-mined for their "funny" parts. Oh, well; comedy may be big business, but, as Steve Martin once noted, it isn't pretty...
That is snobbery, of course, and a reader addicted to another sort of trash -- detective stories, say -- must distrust his instinct to ridicule horror novels. But in each genre there is good trash and bad trash, and King's does not seem very good. Mention this to a fan -- young, intelligent, well read -- and the reply is the same as is heard, above the level of pop lit, when one more dismal fiction by Joyce Carol Carol Oates appears: "Yes, but you should read the early books...
...Casually mention that your Yale acceptance letter is crumpled up somewhere in the corner of your desk. Note that your mother begged you not to chose Yale over Harvard. And for the coup de grace, say you really should have chosen Yale, as safety schools often prove to be the best choice...