Word: swearing
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...here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. I am sure old Andy could give me some good advice and probably teach me some good swear words to use on Molotov and De Gaulle. And I am sure old Grover Cleveland could tell me some choice remarks to make to some political leaders. So I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures...
...Israeli army has become a substitute for Jewish ideals," says Kenan. "No longer do Jews swear by their intellectuals, by their rebels or their revolutionaries, but by their army and their soldiers. They do not want to be martyrs. They want to be an efficient people." Thus, in one scene of the revue a housewife chortles: "Yesterday I noticed that my maid doesn't dust the table properly. So I called in the army. Now the army keeps things in order at home. It's a real delight to see how they rub, like well-oiled machines...
...melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...
...some of them, surely--allow themselves to be influenced by friendship and political congeniality, so faculty members are not perfect machines of judgement and no doubt similarly swayed. We are all supposed to be above such considerations, yet no one can look into the heart of his colleagues and swear they are pure; indeed it is a rare man who can look honestly into his own heart. The aim here is to minimize these influences. This is why the procedure is so complicated and full of checks and balances--why the ad hoc committee within the department is composed...
About the last place one would expect to find a ghost is that most earth-bound of educational institutes, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Nonetheless, several cadets swear that they have recently seen visions of a 5 ft. 3 in. soldier in full Jackson-era regimentals, complete with shako and musket. The thought of spectral shenanigans on hallowed military ground has officials of the Point scratching their well-clipped heads in perplexity...