Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider. Furthermore, personal correspondence between members of the faculty and past and present deans was lifted from the files in my office and systematic reproduction of such documents had already begun. Excerpts from some of these files have today appeared in the current issue of Old Mole, Boston's self-styled "radical weekly...
...other reason than fucking itself. But there is a dualism of high values and a debased reality in a lot of what we do. Our response to this dual nature may take the radical form of blaming corporate power for the evil we live, but this is often self-deluding and hopelessly illogical. In one scene of Greetings, a man is selling an underground newspaper called "The Rat" and he is shouting out to passers-by, "You've seen the Empire State building and the Colonial Theater. Well man, that proves it. That's where this country...
...married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane who looked like a swan on leave from St. James's Park. In New York, the Barneses and their two children, Christopher, 7, and Maya, 5, settled into a sprawling pad on Riverside Drive. The overachiever brushed up his diction, stiffened his self-assurance and pressed...
...horrors of World War II and the Children's Crusade should be seen as perpetually fresh. Yet, Vonnegut suggests, most men are protectively, intentionally, numb to them. If the numbness is necessary to endure life, it also encourages the repetition of atrocities, the decking out of cruelty in self-justifying disguises-the grossest of which is the ennoblement...
This was a predictable mistake. It reflected the Corporation's preoccupation with financial concerns and its attendant political conservatism and somewhat self-interested patriotism. President Pusey's recent appearance before SFAC and the Corporation's response to the Faculty's ROTC resolution are only the most recent examples of a viewpoint that is now not only constricting but, in the context of the times, inflammatory...