Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Education headquarters, an ugly box of a building in Brooklyn that once housed the Elks of the region. Livingston Street is awash with able, well-intentioned administrators, but most of them live by the numbers and have lost touch with the troops in the trenches. Teachers have to punch time clocks, use rigid "lesson plans" that often do not match student needs. They find principals too busy to talk-and principals in turn find their superiors too busy to talk...
...player and even the first violins joined in, tearing furiously into the astonished audience in pursuit of hecklers' blood. When the police arrived, chairs were flying through the air across the courtyard of Venice's Palazzo Ducale. It took a frantic half hour to drag all the punch-drunk musicologists out into St. Mark's Square for a cooling breath...
What the Harvard Summer School really needs is a commencement. As you know, a commencement is sort of like a Yard Punch, only everybody wears funny hats and sinister-looking robes. The main thing about a commencement, though, is that it gives people a chance to reflect upon their academic experience. Even junior high schools have them now, so why shouldn't the Summer School...
...Yorkshire Novelist John (Room at the Top) Braine: "The church needs to make up its mind. Its trouble stems from the fact that nobody seems to know exactly what it stands for." The vacillations of modern-minded Anglican theologians and moralists are a prime target of satire-as witness Punch's recent capsule description of a fictional "Bishop of Bulwark": "Advanced churchman. Believes the word 'not' to be an interpolation in several commandments. Makes Marxist speeches in Lords. Dislikes being called a Christian. Collects butterflies...
...punch line flashed the news of another innovation: "They put ice cream in it this time...