Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sake of reason, as much as one would like to try. Still, as William Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, points out in the 1973-74 annual report of the Bureau, "The pain of the most distressed students, being atypical in intensity and varied in origin, may not be very informative about the general--except that there seemed to be more...
...Shah has both strong intimations of mortality and a divine sense of mission, it may well be because his dynasty is of surprisingly recent origin. His father, Reza Shah, was a swaggering 45-year-old army major in 1921 when he seized power from the corrupt Qajar dynasty. Harsh and intractable, Reza Shah was unable to cope with the world powers that interfered in Persian affairs after oil was discovered. Finally, in 1941, on the ground that he had become dangerously friendly with the Hitler regime, Reza Shah was packed off to exile in South Africa by the British...
...Rockefeller's money, his clout and the relationship between the two were naturally the Senators' main concerns. The witness anticipated them by passing out mimeographed copies of a 72-page statement he had written himself. The subheadings of the statement had a quaint 19th century flavor: "Origin of the Family Ethic," "Grandfather's Early Years," "Influence of My Mother...
...identify Maine's William Cohen as the son of "a Jewish baker and an Irish mother," implying that a religious identity is one and the same as an identity of national origin. I would not wish to nitpick over a matter of semantics, but this sort of writing could lead to some interesting analogies: Richard M. Nixon, son of a Quaker mother and an American father; Barry Goldwater, son of a Jewish merchant and an American mother; Lyndon B. Johnson, son of a Protestant mother and an American farmer; John Kennedy, son of a Catholic mother and an American...
There is a golden statue-isn't there always?-that many men, and a couple of women, desire. Its origin is Chinese, not Maltese, and it has needles inserted in its body to indicate strategic points to be used in the ancient and trendy science of acupuncture. Why these points are not illustrated in some acupuncturist's manual and why they should drive men into quite such acute frenzies of greed are matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply...