Word: remarkable
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Perhaps moot revealing of the commitment to the power structure of the department, is the candid remark made to me some time ago by a prominent member of my department: "Sam, I certainly wouldn't vote for you if I thought you would attempt to disrupt the normal way of doing business in the department." (I replied that that was precisely what I had been trying to do for the past few years, and that I would expect to continue trying should I receive tenure.) Perhaps this is what was meant when during the debate on my rehiring a member...
...press releases issued at the time aren't much help; they are as enlightening as the remark Nixon made while surveying the Great Wall. Quipped the President: "You'd have to say this a great wall!" But later in the visit, Nixon toasted his hosts with a quote from Chairman Mao: "So many deed cry out to be done..Seize the day. Seize the hour...
...away with such antiquated sport rituals as keeping score? Nonsense, he says. "To tell a competitive athlete who is training three and four hours a day, day in, day out, year after year, to not be concerned with victory is liberal snobbery. Or at best it is the remark of someone who simply does not understand the agonistic struggle that is an integral part of the competitive sports experience. It is just as wrong to say winning isn't anything as it is to say winning is the only thing...
Edgar Winters was just here, couldn't have been more than a month ago, because I remember making some witty remark about his new album's cover, surprise winner of last year's "Bad Taste in Album Design" award, just nosing out Mom's Apple Pie. My idea of a good time this last week has been walking the streets with an Edgar Winter--They Only Come Out At Night lapel button, with an eye towards passerby response. It's been minimal. Anyway, celebrate the collapse of another semester with Edgar Winter and scenic Boston's equally scenic James Montgomery...
...unsuccessful in their search for a coon. The family goes to bed hungry. Alone with Rebecca, Nathan Lee curses his existence, but she says "We've been through these hard times before, Nathan Lee and we've made it." "But made it to what," he asks, in a remark that captures the spirit of the evaluation blocks have been finally forced to make today...