Word: slothfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably pastrami sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...
...breasts of most of the students I have met or worked with during my brief stay. Many students are already mature human beings engaged in useful thought and action, but, to the extent that they are, they are doing so in spite of the current Harvard trend toward sloth, trendiness, pandering to the worst in student demands, and general collapse of will and sense of purpose among many of the people who run the University...
...might have remained a thing of beauty and a toy forever. But the agent of its obscurity was also the cause of its revival. For too long, the combustion engine befouled the atmosphere and lulled Americans into a dangerous sloth. But today, the new conservation and the high incidence of circulatory and cardiac diseases have caused the natural life to be reappraised. The bicycle no longer seems juvenile; indeed, it offers the country transportation, romance and exercise at a fee that advertisers like to summarize as "pennies...
Bellow. His life settled into a long, pixilated idyl: winters of bohemian sloth on Singer Island, Fla., sleepy summers at his mother's house in upstate New York, side trips to Europe and Nassau, and an endless supply of booze and accommodating young women. Still, he insists, "my life-style of lugging my own soiled sweat shirts and skivvies to the laundromat and lunching on cheeseburgers and draft beer had altered not a whit...
Harvard's sloth-like play might be attributed to the physical beating Cornell administered the night before in the semifinal contest that the Crimson squad struggled to pull...