Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the Watergate burglars proposing pensions during their jailing. According to defense, their well-coached confessions should entitle their acts to be constructed as mere misdemeanors, inasmuch as the parties were patriotically motivated to forestall the catastrophic felony of a democratic victory. (We marvel how conveniently files disappear in headquarters). We could reward the California firebug for risking his person as fire-fighter in the most disastrous fire Berkeley has had in decades, despite his authorship of the same. We could also award a posthumous peace-prize to Herr Von Ribbentrop for cementing a bilateral non-aggression pact between Hitler...
Pirandello only makes things worse by trying to link this theme to the element of time. Which has greater reality, the eleventh century or the twentieth? Youth or age? Such questions try to squeeze profundity out of mere ambiguity. I doubt that even Pirandello knows where he intends them to lead. The play itself is not always strong enough to bear up under the load of philosophical significance, especially when the philosophy seems inconsistent or even meaningless...
...Jethro Tull, the manic-impressive group for which Anderson is lead singer and flutist, are still artisans right down to their self-mocking codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style...
...administration illustrates Monro's point. In contrast to most large universities, there was no organized expression of outrage at Miles "for the same reason that black studies is not one of our largest majors," Monro says. "Here the point was already made--by the mere fact that Miles exists. Here the black student is 100 per cent; he's it. There was sorrow, pain and concern, but there was no felt need to strike out--you were supported and you knew...
Thus Roland Barthes's essay on "The New Citroen" and the magic of its attraction, in Mythologies. A smooth, silent, seamless object, the modern automobile speaks the myth of a nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly...