Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formidable mass hero whose dime-novel adventures burgeoned on the silent screens of France between 1916 and 1918, decades before Superman got off the ground as a force for good. Happily, Franju never yields to the temptation of playing a soggy old classic for easy laughs as a smart-alecky spoof. Instead he celebrates it with sound, as a nostalgic song of innocence, an ode to an era when all the battles that Virtue waged against Vice were won without tricky compromise...
...they were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then he would lead the boys through their paces. If a little extra encouragement was needed, Papa administered a smart rap on the head with his violin bow. Gradually, recalls Francis, "we learned to love, chamber music as much...
...breaking them. Influence of Lowell and Jarrell have been absorbed and should be purged; the relation to some of Lowell's hospital poems, like "A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich," is too evident. And his literary interest in madness leads him into a crude final section about Christopher Smart, which is regrettable...
Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer. Very few buyers do- but equally few have any notion of the facts on which dealer dickering is based. Such knowledge can save the buyer several hundred dollars...
Bugs are little, and easy to look down on. Ever since Charles Darwin decided that man and his almighty brain were winning the amoral marathon of evolution, it has been fashionable to pity the poor insects for entering a blind alley of biology that mammalry was smart enough to miss. To promote a larger sense of reality, Entomologist Ross E. Hutchins in this unusually competent volume of popular science invites the reader to climb modestly down the Tree of Life and to shinny out on a branch of evolution unimaginably larger and in many respects more fruitful than...