Word: spats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their place in the world. If, after having been picked up by bright-eyed reporters and scavenging trend-setters, after having been beaten lifeless and ground up into a pasty, ready-to-serve-easy-to-digest product, after having been mashed between the gums of force-fed consumers and spat out in a tasteless wad of words, if after going through all this the phrase "doing your own thing" can still have any meaning, then it has meaning in the style of the Grateful Dead...
...Calmly drinking a glass of water, he walked up to the scorer's table. After Valenzuela finished the water, he ate the glass itself and walked away. The Cornell coach started screaming, and called the Crimson foilers barbarians. "Hell, I didn't eat the glass," Valenzuela said Monday. "I spat the glass out later, but the Cornell coach never saw me doing that...
...They can't speak the language. And they call theirselves [sic] French? HAH! Phhh..." And he spat on the cafe floor...
...tart little spat, begun by party treasurer Robert J. Straus, focussed on Galbraith's acerbic but scarcely radical essay Who Needs the Democrats?, published last June. The essay summarized past Democratic blunders in tightly written prose and scores some good points against economic orthodoxies and bureaucratic style. But the indictment is incomplete. Galbraith fails to uncover the misshapen ideology which unifies all these blunders or suggest the basis of a new public philosophy. Liberal ideology must also come to grips with the paralyzing vision of an anti-Democratic, sullen, and silent majority. Only then can the Democrats construct an imaginative...
Like Dostoevsky, Reck believed that the end of the world was at hand. And like Dostoevsky's "underground man," Reck spat his hatred and isolation into the face of history. He had no way of knowing that it is an ironic history. Like a classical Fury giving birth to poetic justice, Diary of a Man in Despair pursues ex-Nazi Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich into English (TIME, Sept...