Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children. When Mrs. Sato complained to her husband about his exploits, she said, "he beat me and smashed things. There were quite a few people who sympathized with me and counseled him against resorting to violence against me. He was not without affection toward me, to be sure, but he certainly did not have the ability to express it. Girls nowadays would simply walk out on him. Even at home he was always oddly silent and played solitaire. He's been playing solitaire these past 40 years, when I think of it. He certainly proved reluctant to open...
...inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a foot ing," he said. The result was that each canvas, with its endless layers of paint drying at different rates, was sure to crack and darken with...
...hidden code of behavior to which all "normal" people subscribe. The man oblivious to the rain is guilty not just of a trivial impropriety, but of the greater sin of social unpredictability. No one can guess with any assurance what ceremony he will next profane. No one can be sure of his respect of public order, without which society would regress to the jungle. Goffman is still exploring the patterns of behavior at social gatherings, which he believes have all the systematic qualities of a language. He is also at work on another book that will apply his own experience...
...mean to say that you don't know any radicals, for I'm sure some of your best friends are radicals. Furthermore, anything you accuse a radical of saying has probably been said by someone calling himself a radical: "Drugs are revolutionary," or "Up against the wall, motherfucker," or "American capitalism is now essentially like European capitalism in the middle of the 19th century." And sometimes such views come to dominate a particular scene to the extent that they actually express, for the moment, the viewpoint of a significant group of radicals. And this may be a necessary stage...
...York City, it also promises to give us some more philosophical material to work with. Or at least some more causes for our effects. Imagine what it would do to our thinking if we could find out what the ends of the universe might be. It's for sure that once we get our astronomers and their telescopes up there free of our obscuring atmosphere they will, right away, start telling us all kinds of unimagined new things about what it is we and our planet are doing here...