Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northestern picked up our primary receiverswell," Yohe said. "But they gave us the outsideall day, the sprint stuff. We used our timingpatterns well...
Henrietta, another sophomore, says she worked in a research lab injecting mice and pipetting "stuff into each plate of assay material." And then she injected a few more mice and pipetted some more stuff...
This sort of stuff goes on all the time. There are few really new ideas left. Political speechwriters more than earn their wage if they can come up with genuinely new and elegant formulations of tired old cliches. Ted Sorenson made John Kennedy sound like a Boston Bard by doing just that...
...suburb, by declaring himself a socialist. His father, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and his mother, a teacher, both thought the flirtation with socialism was crazy. "I read The Coming Struggle for Power, a Marxist analysis of capitalism by John Strachey," he recalled later. "It was powerful stuff and I thought it was probably true...
What do you do if you like this stuff less than most people? The usual view is that only an inhibited, snobbish sourpuss could fail to take delight in a Grooms show. And what, the Grooms fan will say, do you have against humor? The fan has a point, in a way, since Grooms' popularity comes at least in part from the truly awful seriousness of the high-culture industry, its inability to see how weird its own solipsism and sanctimony can look. The mock-religious cloud that formed around abstract expressionism when it was becoming America's first imperial...