Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THESE DAYS when the very foundations of the Republic are crumbling, scholars at this University have a double obligation--to themselves and their fellow citizens of all races and creeds--to pursue their studies diligently. It is therefore to be regretted that an otherwise worthy publication recently saw fit to sponsor a so-called "Television Trivia Quiz" whose only purpose was to seduce these students from their rightful duties into the paths of sloth represented by Channel Four and the like...
...that Hayes is still a trifle ragged on defense. But that fact could not be proved by an established veteran like the New York Knicker bockers' Howard Komives. "I could swear that one time Hayes came out of the stands to block my shot," said Komives. "I never saw...
Eliot spent several hours a day for six weeks atop the tower within touching distance of the ceiling, contemplating the frescoes as Michelangelo himself saw them in his four years of labor...
...engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway and drive...
...think, little quarrel. But about the solution their views are crucially divergent. In Kafka there was simply none available, for the very qualities which render the dreaded state intolerable--its impressive size, structural inefficiency, and grotesque involution--also render it effectively invulnerable. Hasek, on the other hand, saw in these same qualities the faults which invite the wedge: nothing so ludicrous could really expect to survive. Hasek created the figure of Schweyk, the good soldier, whose will to survive encompasses his will to resist, and whose native innocence and peasant cunning provides the specific antidote to corporate petrification...