Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck by students' moral courage today," he continued. "I still feel that they get a little self-righteous, but this is because they are still young. You don't get experience out of a book, you have to get a good kick in the behind...
...Jessie Gill's a self-appointed authority-she worries about us old people. She's very well-meaning, very anti-Harvard, I guess. I don't have any anti-Harvard feeling; it's the whole country I'm worried about. Why put a fence around the U.S? That's just what they're doing with the damn ABM, it's asinine. If the bombs are coming let them come, that's what I say-why spend all that money...
...leadership-he combines traces of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver-Smith as a character is most extraordinary for his recognizable human qualities and frailties. Behind Horn Smith's power and hatred there is a person who desperately needs the recognition and sympathy even of a self-consciously inadequate white priest. Yet the fact that Pratt and Smith somehow strike up something that can be construed as friendship is remarkable. The unusual results of their mutual "needs" raise the novel above the level of an otherwise purely allegorical tale of ghetto politics...
...posters of the Strike Artists' Co-operative, especially the more abstract ones, are high art in its most self-justifying sense. That is, they make the walls they're pasted on better to look at, and they lift human participation in the strike out of pure rhetoric...
Assistant coach Benn Merritt presented the Crimson's star diver with the Stowell Trophy, "given to the senior who through perseverance, diligence, and untiring self-sacrifice, has most improved during his collegiate career...