Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish to show at the outset why you cannot go into the kitchen and make soup and count that soup for a degree. This is not because Radcliffe College belittles soup-making or your soup-making in particular, but because the Radcliffe degree is essentially the Harvard degree, and it is warranted by a committee of the Harvard Faculty, by the President and Corporation and the Officers of Harvard College."-LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1909, quoted in Introducing Radcliffe...
...LAST night in Luang Prabang I ate dinner in the bamboo shack of a Lao translator I had met in the U.S. Information Service office. We ate a typical meal of tasteless "sticky rice." coated vegetables and soup. We talked about the war, the Americans and the Pathet Lao. "Do you know what Pathet Lao means?" he asked...
...Look at London. For 200 years, it was the most polluted city in the world. [Because of strict antipollution laws], they have not had a pea-soup fog for six years, and last year they had 50% more sunshine than they had ten years ago. Songbirds are returning to the parks, fish are being caught again in the Thames." He recalls a personal hero, Herbert Johnson, supervisor of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. As a minor park employee 18 years ago, Johnson was appalled at New York City's use of Jamaica Bay as a garbage dump and worked...
...heads the Code and Rating Administration. Although Dougherty and the ten board members who serve with him have generally won the praise of exhibitors and the gratitude of parents, there has been increasingly vehement criticism that the categories G-GP-R-X are just so much alphabet soup...
...social structures, like museums; intellectual structures, like aesthetics; subconscious structures, like the idea of the comic-are the proper subjects of large-scale pop art. Andy was the first person to point out that doing one thing a large number of times is both artistically interesting and perverse; his soup cans have changed our eyesight...