Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory to the younger miners. "Sixty percent of the work force today are 30 years of age or under," he said, "and they are all very much aware of the issues." His new secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, 41, saw it a little differently. He declared: "The men were just plain fed up with the whole crooked Boyle business from top to bottom...
...reader from ". . . more or less formal question about the kind of book Walden is to matters more or less concerning its doctrine," that is, its philosophy. The progression is symbolized by the quote from Thoreau's letter which appears in thirds below the chapter titles: "On the first perusal plain common sense should appear on the second severe truth and on third beauty." Within this structure, Cavell allows himself free rein to follow the pattern of symbol and image through out Walden without regard to either chronology or, at times, formal logic...
...give thieves the chance to make Harvard people their victims. Always be suspicious of strangers. Report loiterers to the University Police immediately. They may be plain-clothes officers of the University Police, who will be asking persons they encounter to show proof of University affiliation. Over the past two Christmas vacation, thieves took property worth $8186 from Harvard buildings-- and in more than half the thefts, a door had been left unlocked...
...inseparable from a larger, subtler revolution in European culture; the pre-eminence of "society" and "community" replaced the older authority of feudalism and of the Church. The "Revolution of the Saints" described by Michael Walzer, with the Calvinist insistence on moral commitment to the community, individual integrity and truthful "plain speaking," is clear expression of the rise of sincerity. The arts followed suit, with narrative elucidating the individual self in autobiography and the novel. Finally, psychoanalysis emerged as a late phase of this quest of the whole, sincere self--being a narrative technique whereby the individual's unity with...
...Clark station on 100th street and I went to Harvard and he pumped gas and it was all so absurd because he was caddy of the year twice and I was just a not-so-close runner-up. We called him melonhead then or just plain 'melon' because his older brother who was in the state funny farm at Vandalia had an outsized head and the name was passed...