Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That perceived peculiarity is double-edged. On the one hand, some Yale alums still cluck over the spectacle of Giamatti's descent from academic grandeur to the commercial muck of professional sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid...
...There is, of course, a lot more muck about Hart that could be raked. It's a dirty job, so somebody is likely to do it. Says National Enquirer President Iain Calder: "To go over the old ground would be tiresome. But we would take a story with a good angle in order to entice the reader. We are checking out phone tips actively...
...Happiness Principle" is the reason for slothfulness, slovenliness, inefficiency, and for all the troubles that have ever plagued studentkind--except of course for why sometimes they awake with their eyes glued shut with gooky muck. No one knows why this happens. But for every other problem, "The Happiness Principle" is the reason. Simply put, it is this: at every moment of intellectual or academic epiphany, joy overtakes the epiphaner such that work must end and celebration must begin...
Benn's story, that of a comfortably aging man pulled into the muck of life by an avid and avaricious young wife, was hilarious when Chaucer included it in The Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in Kenneth's fumbling, long-winded ^ attempts to get it told. "I take very little pleasure in theories," he announces at the beginning, "and I'm not going to dump ideas on you." After incessant theorizing and idea dumping, he confesses toward the end, "As is evident by now, I have...
...John Maynard Keynes--civil servants and diplomats jumped at the opportunity to work for the Europeans from central offices in Paris and Washington. The excitement over the implementation of the plan reflected the nation's belief at the time "that intelligent action can be immensely helpful and not just muck things up," says Professor of History Charles S. Maier, who is currently working on a history...