Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Learning that the local Public Broadcasting Service station would begin airing old re-runs of the group's BBC television series came as very welcome news in those days, and the prospect of being disappointed or even failing to be amused never crossed my mind. Yet disappointment and the nervous giggle did mark my response to that first Monty Python re-run, and the process of a previously inconceivable disenchantment first set in right then and there. What had sounded on the stereo like an irrepressible source of path-breaking humor came off on the screen as just so many...
...troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background and appearance. Had they but remained unseen, the Monty Python figures would have preserved their demigods-of-comedy status in my mind...
...Martin T. Orne'48, now a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, said the findings of his research would have disappointed the CIA officials "if they had wanted to use hypnosis for mind control...
...regards oneself as a liberal to think about trying to find a new man. To be sure, Carter's appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy, not appointments, which shapes the course of nations. The Democratic Party has not traditionally accepted a defeatist philosophy of government, a philosophy that Carter seems to be adopting. The year 1980, therefore, may turn out to be the year for a fight for the heart and soul...
...thing, I'm a second-semester senior with a great deal on my mind. My undergraduate days are reduced with every passing flake, and I have far more important things to do than write about snow. Things like eating, sleeping and figuring out how many times I've seen each episode of "Happy Days...