Word: sooth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future of academics? Ah--let us see courses on Astrology, on Sooth-saying, and on Winning-at-Checkers. Let us follow in the footsteps of Master Vogt, abdicate from our quaint conceptions of intellectual obligation, and capitulate spinelessly to every rebellious whim of newly-pubescent adolescents who wish to pursue nonsense in the name of knowledge. Let us heed the words of Mr. Restic, who cautions us that "You won't begin to cover the multiflex in one semester," and so let us in all haste fire our existing faculty and offer tenure to the valiant young...
...glass of raw blood every day, a plate of calves' brains washed down with a beer thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...
...child (Joe Nuxhall was only 16 when he pitched for Cincinnati) who ever played in the major leagues. The current (third) edition is now being sold out. There will not be another until 1980 -an aeon away to the true baseball nut. who relies upon the book for sooth as well as solace...
...despite the effect of the stock-market crash on the public mood a few weeks later, it managed a healthy 234-performance run. It has plenty of fine music and some good lyrics. The main trouble lies in its book, which is silly and amorphous (the same, in sooth, might be said about the plot of many a grand opera...
STRATFORD, Conn.--To be fair. I had best start with a confession: As You Like It is not a play I particularly treasure. Sooth to say, I would if pressed have to place it, in the entire Shakespearean canon, about three-quarters of the way down the list. I know, I know: critics the world over continue to acclaim the work in rapture, and teachers ecstatically lead their charges through it in almost every high school in the land...