Word: seamier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exert what influence we can to bring about change for the better. Bok even suggests that disassociation constitutes an abdication of our moral responsibility to stay in there and fight But we all know that we are too pure and holy to contaminate ourselves by such contact with the seamier manifestations of human nature. We are above all that...
...nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
...time the seamier side of Harvard's handling of the Engelhard question came to light. Administration officials have claimed that they had an "agreement" with us, an "understanding" with us, or that "mutual respect" existed between their negotiators and ours, and that we had somehow acted in bad faith. None of these statements are true, and the events of Saturday, particularly our attitude towards President Bok's speech, must be understood in this light...
...reporters covering the funeral only compound the absurdity of these scenes. Another sequence finds Valentino behind bars on a bigamy charge. His fellow jailbirds include a couple of whores and a host of assorted low lifes who eagerly pounce on the opportunity to introduce the fabled actor to the seamier side of life. The nightmare that ensues calls to mind the twisted faces and perverse smiles of a Hieronymous Bosch canvas...
...batted big lashes at me. Could this be, I wondered, the same pasteurized number who had never been involved with anything seamier than hatching tadpoles in Richter's biology lab? Who had never shown more knee than the Brobdingnagianized safety-pin on her scotch-kilts would allow? Who had never pressed more flesh than when doing the Virginia Reel at Lucy Karambelas's Holy Communion Ball...