Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear him out. For him, this entails careful ideological maneuvering. "Free speech is encouraged, especially if it remains within the accepted channels." In one case, ideological leverage gets him out of solitary. During the Great Leap Forward, Pasqualini roguishly tells another "schoolmate" that he should have received a mere day's sentence. Reported for mockery of the judicial system the warder casually dismisses him when he hears the claim was made in the spirit of the Great Leap, whose slogan was "One Day Equals Twenty Years...
...most unusual lineups of the season in the 400 medley relay. Malcom Cooper led off with the backstroke lap followed by Kevin O'Connell swimming breaststroke. John Craig flew and captain Mark Depman anchored the team. Depman just touched out his Cornell counterpart, edging him by a mere eight hundredths of a second...
...wandered each night in surreal dreamscapes, was an enchanting champion of childhood fantasy. Though Trudeau cannot approach McCay's technique, he still retains the ability to see things through young eyes. "A flight of fantasy," he writes in his preface to the Chronicles, "is no mere sleight of mind. But only children . . . are nurtured by it. Later, of course, many of us comprehend our self-imposed poverty and try to double back, but the bread crumbs are always missing and our failures are immense...
Bell is no mere nostalgia peddler sighing for antique worlds. With acerbic but civil scholarship, he blames today's honorless condition on what he calls "modernism": the cultural movement that started in the latter half of the 19th century and has gathered momentum ever since. Modernism rejects the old, the traditional, the bourgeois in favor of the new, the sensational, the revolutionary. As such, it has dissolved many conventions, and discredited most institutions and values. Today, says Bell, its victory is complete. There is a perpetual, unwholesome rage for the new. Instead of affirming a "moral-philosophical tradition against...
Astonishingly, Danny Thomas' new show, THE PRACTICE (NBC, Friday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), should not be ignored. Thomas is your basic, crusty old family doctor, and, to be sure, he cannot resist the occasional opportunity to show that he is more than a mere comic. Yet the show's structure is sound. Danny's son is a Park Avenue practitioner whose sharp dress, smooth manner and cleverness about tax shelters drives the old boy to outrage. The gag writing, at least in the opening episode, is plentiful and sharp-up to Mary Tyler Moore standards...