Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carol Monica, owner of The Games People Play, decided just yesterday to try skating with her niece, Monica Karpowish, she said. "I haven't skated in 28 years," she added, "but I skated a lot when I was little and I thought it would all come back." It must have, because she had no much fun she plans to skate everyday for exercise...
Unlike Alien, where the cast is confined to monosyllables, the characters in Prophecy talk. A lot. Long time. Enough exposition for five giant monster movies. Everybody has a point of view; so did I--I munched my popcorn and thought about the blonde three rows down. When it comes to mixing horror and blatant social criticism, I prefer Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster...
Rogers' victory is an example of organized grass-roots resistance to liberal trends in current religious thought and behavior. Conservatives campaigned in 15 states to draw the inerrancy voters to Houston. Rogers will enjoy wide influence and has indirect power over the appointment of seminary board members. He is already on record as being interested in the idea of investigating the seminaries and what they teach...
Lament's avalanche of quotes and statistics is often devastating. "Cheating is a way of life here," one Penn student told him. By 1976 only half the undergraduates at Stanford would say they thought cheating was unjustifiable. In one year 4,500 books were stolen from the Berkeley library. When caught, college thieves and cheaters tended to say, "I didn't do anything that everyone else isn't doing." Faculties were not much help. Many, Lament reports, objected to taking a moral stand for fear of "sounding like scolds" to their students. As a University of Chicago...
...which all others are judged. "Be there a thousand lives, my great curiosity has stomach for 'em all," exclaimed Boswell; his nosy exuberance sends the pages flying. His contemporaries devoured Boswell with as much enthusiasm as we do, but he made them uncomfortable: he was too candid, they thought, too explicit about Johnson's faults and foibles...