Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you started the column it didn't seem that you were as quick to recommend psychotherapy...
...many cannot seem to shed the nagging feeling that they went wrong somewhere, that they have betrayed the ideals of their youth. This is exactly the kind of emotion Anthony M. Casale and Phillip Lerman tap into in their new book Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation...
...course, everyone speculates about how these incidents occur at the time they are discovered. Years of analysis and research later, we develop some understanding of their causation, as we have, for example, with the Vietnam War. But just as we seem to get a grasp of how our government messes up, hungry journalists uncover more and more scandals...
Barker has no problem accepting women (which he calls either "girls" or "ladies," depending on the reference) as intelligent and capable. But for someone who looks so disdainfully on the Freudian philosophy, Barker just can't seem to grasp the fact that the world does not revolve around his penis. While his academic work is on the cutting edge of his field, his brain--and his body--are still operating in a 1950s mode...
...such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical and a romantic, but then so may Dryden, depending on your point of view. In some respects this statement is unquestionably true; but in others..." On through the night...