Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patty's whole tale, the prosecutor said, was "just too big a pill to swallow." He asked the jurors if they would accept the "incredible story" of the robbery "from anyone but Patricia Hearst. If you wouldn't, don't accept it from her either." Browning concluded with a quote cited in several Supreme Court decisions that had a grim, Old Testament ring. He hoped, he said, "that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer...
...from the back cover of "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"--it's 1974, right? and Jaws is more than an aching molar in the back of Peter Benchley's mouth, right? and a great white shark is slithering through clear green water on the back cover, about to swallow the credits and titles...
...THIS POINT I must confess a certain bias in this review. I have long admired Skinner and his philosophy. He holds out to the uninitiated a few reasonable axioms. Once you swallow them--as I did--you are swept along by a dogma as internally consistent and all-encompassing as Marxism. With precision and specificity, Skinner tackles the philosophical dilemmas of the ages--free will, consciousness, and "the good." But the person Skinner leaves us with is a mere puppet, without purpose and dignity. He speaks of the self as nothing more than "the small part of the universe which...
...Swallow's Nest), his spectacular Italian villa at Ravello, perched on a 200-ft. cliff overlooking the Amalfi coast. The sundrenched three-story house is impeccably furnished and filled with mementos and family photographs; Senator Gore's old rocking chair sits in the second-floor study where his grandson writes...
PRESS POISON. Do not swallow!" was a leftist poster slogan in the May 1968 French uprising. We Americans could well heed this warning. Newspaper owners and Voice of America broadcasters love to brag about this country's free, objective press. Meanwhile, news management--a genteel euphemism for lying--is often the order...