Word: purred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left for what it is as long as Friedman sticks to the mimicry of detective-story dialogue, journalism cliches, police-blotter prose, and the series of burlesque lech-skits that give The Dick its basic shape. But when, as he does at the end, Friedman tries to graft existential pur pose onto his low-comedy hero, the ques tion becomes an embarrassment. Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik...
...instant obsolescence, fashionable slang wears out faster than most commodities. What is very lively in Kansas City today may brand a user as quaint in Manhattan or the Bay Area. It thus becomes periodically necessary, as French Poet Stéphane Mallarmé once suggested, donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu -to purify the dialect of the tribe...
...Ling's largest problem was his pur chase of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
...Disregarding for the moment pur terrible terrestrial predicament, what is needed in the air are small vertical or short takeoff aircraft operating with a minimum of fuss, short loading times, and flying only when and where demanded. The next installment fashioned by our current political incompetents is the ultimate mumbo jumbo of aviation-the bloody, ear-splitting SST. We have been to the moon and demonstrated some kind of "supremacy"; why not call it quits...
...convin??ug argument has been made as to why those decisions should now be reversed Furthermore, no student requested to have the University has ever been per??tted to remain in his House, whether th?? House is on-campus or a Harvard-spon??red cooperative house. One of the pur??ses of severance is to insure that the student leaves the University for some p??iod of time to rethink his relationship to it. Living in a Harvard House, a??nding classes, or using the library facili??s are privileges reserved for members ?? good standing of the University. That...