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Clarkson's win was fairly easy--Harvard men looked sloth and sleazy...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...Seven Deadly Sins, gluttony has received the least attention from this generation. Judging from the reception accorded to unchastity and sloth, the neglect can only be attributed to ignorance, not lack of interest...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Burgers, Pasta and Patisserie | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...filth in meat-packing plants, which was still sickeningly pervasive 60 years after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Nader's list of targets expands steadily: harmful food additives, explosion-prone natural-gas pipelines, radiation emissions from color television sets, unwholesome poultry, polluted water and air, bureaucratic sloth, corporate oligopoly, laborunion corruption, Union Carbide, the Du Fonts of Delaware, California land use, the Bureau of Reclamation. Next, Nader plans to zero in on the lassitude of the Congress of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Ya With? | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...exception, fulfilled the audience's craving for a thousand decibel dry hump. And Howard Wales' sterile charade delivers: drum solos with all the pulse of a seconal addict; keyboard work with all the sensuousness and imagination of a computer print out; treacly singing; the stage presence of a sloth; and above it all in smug squalor was the ego of Wales, ballooning over the audience with all the magnificence of a slug in heat...

Author: By Roger L. Smith, | Title: Rock and Schlock | 2/11/1972 | See Source »

...number of people who feel that he is "keeping the economy healthy"; 63% still react "negatively" to the way he handles the nation's economic affairs. People are obviously waiting for results. Meantime, Nixon has apparently decided to build enthusiasm by appealing to pride and self-interest, condemning sloth, pushing a rather protectionist line and proclaiming that in economics, as in other respects, the U.S. must remain first in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon in the Pulpit: Economic Evangelism | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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