Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students for the DESTRUCTION of Society), for popularizing the neologism "ROT-C," with emphasis on the first syllable. I would like to add, for Professor Lipset and others of his ilk, that there really is no need for a 'student referendum" since 2-3% of the students seem to be calling the shots anyway...
...well--real for us. Again, Cassavetes uses this phony cinema verite. But it is cinema verite without the verite, only the trappings of a spontaneous film: the pictures are grainy, the sound is very poor, the actors talk over each other's lines, the camera is made to seem like a spy or an intruder...
...commentators suggest, we are moving through a turning point in history in which old ways of doing things are breaking up. Perhaps we are experiencing shattering fundamental changes the significance of which cannot yet be even dimly discerned. Some would like to have us believe this; but such explanations seem to me overdramatic. Nevertheless, unable to offer a better reason, I must at least concede the possibility that our colleges and universities are only among the first of institutions to be shaken by an all-encompassing sea-change now occurring around the world. Though I hope...
...seriously threatened today are appalled by the prospect of all that super-organization-and all that cuteness-which could lead to a village of Snow White Synthetic or Plastic Alpine. Moreover, the area around Mineral King would also be profoundly altered as a result of the resort. What seems to bother the Sierra Club most is the prospect that the pack travelers and other outdoorsmen will no longer be the only kings on this hill. Jack Hope, senior editor of Natural History magazine, voiced the typical objection. Disney's plan, he said, "conjures up pictures of tourists picking...
Many of Montherlant's jibes seem self-consciously Shavian...