Word: reade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adlow made his decisions after reading certain choice portions of recent Avatar issues, including the celebrated centerfold of four-letter words and alleged account of the judge's own conduct in his Nov. 8 obsenity conviction of Avatar's 11th issue. According to that account, Adlow told bickering lawyers: "Shut up you c----and let's get this f----show on the road before the mammy-jamming sun goes down. . . . Ah b----, this is getting boring. I'm going home to read Avatar...
...that they all learned a valuable lesson," he said. It was a lesson that he did not think boys these days are learning at home. "Kids go by what we do," said Cheseboro. "They see their parents come home at 5 and take a few drinks, and they have read all those articles telling them that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol." As a result, he concluded, when they go out to get their kicks, they are tempted...
...They read ecclesiastic history, pored over medieval manuscripts, and for relaxation visited cathedrals or read their contemporaries: Tennyson, who was writing about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
Verses & Wine. This feeling made a Utopian socialist of him. He influenced generations of obscure idealists throughout the world who read his News from Nowhere, a palimpsest of nonexistent felicities, as if it were a blueprint for the future. The illogic inherent in the notion that an infatuation with wimples, rood screens and the music of madrigals played on hautboys should give him title to prescribe for future generations seldom troubled Morris. If it had, he could not have led a life of such vigor and achievement...
Every applicant is assigned an advocate according to the geographical location of his secondary school. The advocate is one of three men who read and evaluate an appilanct's folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area...