Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course we must return to problems of definition, since we do not think a broad General Education means a series of survey courses (in the worst sense of that phrase) spread over a variety of topics. We share fully the Committee's desire to avoid superficiality in Gen Ed. But who does not? To solve the dilemma of breadth versus depth is inevitably to settle on basic definitions of the General Education. But this is not easy...
...wall of her room, Lilith scrawls hiara pirlu resh kavawn, a phrase from a secret language she has devised. It is never translated. By contrast, the lush spoken dialogue works little strain on the imagination. Lilith wants "to leave the mark of her desire on every living creature in the world." Warren Beatty, studiously guttural as the overzealous therapist who notes that his patient looks just like his mother, has difficulty explaining his dilemma to the chief psychiatrist. "Do you think she's trying to seduce you?" asks the doctor. "Um . . . you can't put it like that...
...before he was four minutes into his demand for "law and order in this nation," he betrayed his ennui, one might say world sadness; the teleprompter stopped, so did Goldwater, and for one long moment his eyes went up and back into his mind, slowly searching for the key phrase which would unleash a mindless string of sentences to sustain him until he could switch back to the safety of the moving words...
...court has done nothing to "promulgate degeneracy" or otherwise undermine civil morality [Sept. 11]. The decisions simply allow Americans the privilege of a difference in moral outlook. The phrase "under God" does not stand for religious-moral absolutism...
When Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (pronounced O'Faytawn) was 20 and a student at the University College in Cork, he wrote a poem containing the phrase "Mother Ireland's teeming navel"; he was subsequently astounded, he recalls, to learn from a medical student that in the history of medicine "no mother had yet been known to eject a baby through her belly-button...