Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Granted, the center does good work--but does it do enough good work? Virtually the only program at Harvard seeking to improve teaching skills, the center has been called a mere token, something Harvard can proudly point to when critics accuse her of harboring a single-minded passion for research. Krupnick explains that the center is small because administrators were initially skeptical about the experiment. "They were waiting to see if it would just be a trendy thing that would fall on its face," she says...
Serban said a director should have a specific reason for presenting a classic drama beyond the mere desire to do a classic. "A classic is dead, like a gold mine. It must be taken, explored, and made alive again," he said...
...awareness that we are not shocked enough. We have already imagined most conceivable outrages against law and decency, or had them imagined for us in drugstore bestsellers or films. We are more than ready for the kidnaping of the Pope. Our emotional response to the reality will be a mere carbon copy of what we felt when contemplating the idea or the fiction. We are overprepared, as we were for the moon landings...
...sexually free; it is correspondingly good to be aggressive, intolerant, even murderous. Of course, certain inhibitions remain that move us to justify our atavistic urges in terms of myths or ideologies−Bakuninian anarchy, neo-Maoism, Palestinian liberation, what we will: they mostly add up to a mere vague blessing from the superego on the acts of the ego. We just want to have things our own way, and to hell with oppression, suppression, repression...
When Anneliese Michel died at the age of 23 in Klingenberg, West Germany, in the summer of 1976, she was little more than a skeleton, weighing a mere 68 Ibs. Yet shortly before she died, her parents said, Anneliese performed an astonishing 500 deep knee-bends in one day. The source of her power, her parents believed, was nothing less than the devil himself. Anneliese's release from evil spirits came only with death, after she starved herself during a nightmarish ten-month series of Roman Catholic exorcism rituals. Two weeks ago, a court in Aschaffenburg found two priests...