Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest passion of the Cambridge students is their love of equality. The cause of equality has been advocated by many great men in many eras, most of which were before I was born. Jean-Jacques Rousseau said that Society was not equal to the sum of its parts. Henry Ford made parts interchangeable. Voltaire said that "we must cultivate our own garden." Thomas Jefferson owned a large plantation. John Locke told us that when we are born our minds are like a tabula rasa, or a "blank slate." John Dewey thought we should keep it that way. History has taught...
...most profound constitutional principles. In a far different context (a criminal case in which Ervin as a state supreme court justice argued to free a convicted man), he stated his first concern. "What may be the ultimate fate of the prisoner is of relatively minor importance in the sum of things," he wrote. "His role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens to the law is of the gravest moment. The preservation unimpaired of our basic rules of procedure is an end far more desirable than that of hurrying a single sinner to what...
Randy Newman. Randy Newman's a weird dude, what with songs about burning rivers, and fat freaks, and an epic about slavery, as well as Three Dog's own Mama Told Me Not to Come. He's got the warped perspective I've approached, but never duplicated. Forced, to sum him up, I'd say this: If he was my friend, and I had to introduce him to someone, I'd say: This is Randy Newman, one of the five weirdest people I know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled...
...exchange for the Paha Sapa, the U.S. offered $6 million, a paltry sum compared to the $500 million in gold which the Black Hills eventually produced...
...inevitable that Littlefeather would give his reason for refusing the award: "The treatment of American Indians in the motion picture industry, on TV reruns, and what's happening at Wounded Knee today." Some in the audience booed, some applauded, but it was left up to Raquel Welch to sum up the prevailing mood of silliness. "I hope," she huffed as she read off the list of nominees for best actress, "that the winner doesn't have a cause...