Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Larry Peerce is a director with a lamentable sense of style and a laudable way with actors. Although his version of Philip Roth's 1959 novella of young love in suburbia is full of visual vulgarities, Richard Benjamin and stunning Newcomer Ali MacGraw save the show with their finely shaded performances...
Britton said that $85-per-student reduction is about the same as the amount the dining halls will save by not serving lunch. The dining halls are trying not to take a loss or make a profit under the proposed change, he said...
...their history. Big businessmen, on the other hand, were concerned about shrinking profits and the "participation" that De Gaulle had promised their workers following the chaos of last spring. The workers, in turn, resented both inflation and the higher taxes that De Gaulle had imposed in order to save the franc last fall. De Gaulle had juggled France's finances in an effort to satisfy both workers and businessmen; he had succeeded in pleasing neither and frightening both...
...many unhappy intellectuals, the quick answer is that McCarthy failed in the end, that reformers just nibble at things, and that America needs a good revolution to save itself. In fact, such pessimism may be rather premature. Today, important thinking about moral synthesis is coming from the very scientific intellectuals whom literary intellectuals decry. It was morally sensitive scientists who helped inspire the nuclear-test-ban treaty, and they also lead the most informed debate on the ABM program. In addition, an entire new generation of scientific intellectuals is deeply concerned about ecology and environment-preoccupations that far transcend...
Also it seems that the philosophy behind most of the other stimuli we consciously subject ourselves to is to put us into neutral--to free us from stimulation. We eat food to free us from hunger and to save our bodies from weakness and deficiencies. We adjust the thermostat in our rooms so that we will have to feel neither cold, nor heat. We want to hang in the middle, to reach a stasis in how we feel. This is what we think of as our "natural" condition. From here, we presumably, we can experience anything that might happen...