Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that such gems exist even at mighty Harvard is no evidence that college is as easy as ever. On the contrary, the toughness of other courses makes guts all the more precious. When pressed, some Harvard gut-seekers concede feelings of "intellectual dishonesty." But most agree with one student on the dean's list: "For getting into graduate school or making the dean's list, an A is an A no matter what course...
...Broadway's most precious asset is its receptiveness to new ideas, and the most provocative contemporary idea in the modern theater has been the bizarre, chaotic, deeply existential attempt to find the meaning of man in a world of no-meaning threatened with a nuclear apocalypse-the theater of the absurd...
...lose states rights which safeguard the most precious of all human rights--the right to control and govern ourselves at home--the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--then may we ask, "For what is a man profiteth if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul...
...There is precious little dignity or equality in our natural state. Most human beings have to spend their lives in utter vulnerability. All are born unequal, in terms of capacity or strength . . . and survive only through the restraint shown by more powerful neighbors. For nearly 3.000 years 'Western man' has struggled to create a social order in which weak, fallible, obstinate, silly, magnificent man can exercise his free and responsible choice...
Every syllable of her precious name-fat ten ha ma ma-was a treasure on the tongues of the moviegoers of Egypt. She was, by Egyptian description, "the Shirley Temple of Arabian movies"-a star since the age of seven and a radiant symbol of sweet, untouched Islamic puritanism. She was 20 and spoke no English. When she auditioned Omar in her east-side apartment high over the Nile, she said to him: "Do something...