Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair grow long in hell, said I; here's another "think piece." But I continued to read with an open mind. It didn't make much sense--in fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present...
...Caroline Littlejohn, who hopes to use her scholarship at Barnard, had not been so confident. She is at the top of her class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...
...shuttered house overlooking Aix in French Provence, Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...
...warded off only by a 'better justice' on the part of the Western world, not by the all too cheap denials in which the fear of the West is now expressing itself. Nor can I confess allegiance to ... [the] 'Christian West'; rather I think that the locus of Christianity is to be sought above today's conflict between East and West...
...book is so simply written that any reader may grasp its hopeless message; and even those who furiously reject Eliot's thoroughly reactionary and dogmatic conclusions will be bound to agree that he has forced them into the healthy exercise of having to think furiously, too. Eliot's Notes starts by challenging people who use the word "culture" without ever pausing to think of what it means. To the average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization...