Word: reasonably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing now: the glib, absurd equation of Hitler's factories of death and the war in Vietnam; the facile postmortem advice to the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka (they should have fought, he thinks, precisely because it would have made no difference) from someone who writes that the only reason he wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that he might get caught...
...could not happen to them. (In these matters, the faculty have a great deal to learn from the student militants, who for all their factionalism, have a keener sense of solidarity; hence the universal cry for amnesty and the frequent demand for collective responsibility. We have all the more reason to be grateful to Prof. Stanley Hoffmann for his letter of reproof and indignation...
...social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba to promote racial justice. Meyer could have done himself and his viewers a big favor by cutting all the "relevant" scenes. There's no reason in the world that Vixen should be wasting time casting racial slurs at the motorcyclist, when she could as easily be chasing Mounties...
...also observed that "blue giants-massive, hot stars-are fainter in the ultraviolet than the rest of the main sequence stars" (Main sequence stars are middle-aged stars such as the sun). This second result can be explained by the structure of the blue giants. Davis said, but the reason for the brightness...
...score of 74-0. The Dartmouth men played a curious game, their three backs bunching close behind the quarter-back and breaking through the centre of the rush line together. Their play was effective, rarely gaining for them less than three yards, and often five or eight. The reason the Harvard team could not stop these rushers better lay in the fact that all the men were very slow in getting through, and all tackled high. The offensive game of the Harvard team was the best that it has played this year. The running of the backs was strong...