Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under...
...major problems with Harvard basketball at the moment are these: a lack of depth until Bob Johnson returns; a lack of height although Paul Waickowski's performance against San Francisco was very encouraging; a surfeit of careless errors and missed opportunities. Harrison has done a remarkable job in instilling spirit in his team--sophomores Noble, Joe Stanislaw, Mike Collins and George Yates typify the spirit: though sparingly used, they talk it up on the bench and hustle through practices, all interested in improving the program...
...plays an upright, uptight Los Angeles lawyer named Harold Fine with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone...
...Surfeit of Sophistication. "It began about 1953 in the Little Leagues," says California Angels Shortstop Jim Fregosi. "They started taking all the good athletes and making them pitchers." By the time he is twelve, today's Little Leaguer can cut the corner of the plate with a curve and he has the confidence to throw one on a three-and-two count. When he reaches the majors at an average age of 20, after progressing through the Pony League, high school, American Legion baseball, college and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors...
...aggregate wealth and individual opportunity, no nation in history can match the U.S. Its cities, for all their problems, gleam like gilded Camelots in contrast to most of mankind's habitations. Its fields generate a superabundance of food, its factories a surfeit of goods and gadgets. The gross national product this year will top $846 billion, and median family income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets...