Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's Thomas Howlett (in an Oct. 30 editorial) crassly asserts that five of the six candidates that lost the race for the chairmanship did not run for vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer because of an "inability to swallow their pride...
...spring, as the now-defunct Student Assembly disintegrated, several of Harvard's vestigial student leaders continued to pontificate weekly before a sea of empty seats and a smattering of volunteer representatives. Last week, only one of the six losers in the race for the Undergraduate Council chairmanship managed to swallow his pride and seek a lower office. (He lost again...
...first, this assertion is a little hard to swallow Lennon had the world at his fingertips, he was rich, could go any where, do anything But Lennon, like Elvis before him was averitable prisoner of fame. His was a constant struggle to find reality in the distorted, take environment in which he lived. On the one hand were the insatiable expectations of fans who thought they owned him, on the other all the trappings of the elite--the women, the booze, the drugs, Lennon, being only human, succumbed to the latter as often as not. And when he finally rebelled...
...Jackson's unique blend of traditional jazz and some more contemporary styles. But often he does smack a bit too sentimental. Songs like the sappy, emotional "Breaking Us In Two" ("They say two hearts should beat as one for us...") prove a bit hard to swallow for those who rocked to and rejoiced in "Happy Loving Couples (ain't no friends of mine)." We're just not sure when to take Jackson seriously. And maybe Jackson isn't sure, either. He constantly provides us with twisted paradoxes like "Cancer," an upbeat tune with chilling lyrics: "Everything causes Cancer/There...
There is no doubt of it. Even today you see the indignation rising in him as he recalls the cigarette borrower. He talks with his hands; a swallow would be lost in them. Transferred to Comstock after the Elmira incident, Sy was involved in another fight for which he says he was given 45 days in the "strip cell" (one meal every third day, no clothes but shorts and a T shirt, sleep on the floor). Eventually he stopped fighting, but served five years anyway, developing a new opinion of himself. "I didn't like what I was becoming...