Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if the streams revive, even if trout, muskellunge and bass thrive tomorrow as they did in Walton's day, a fisherman's luck will remain random and capricious. For most anglers, that will be all right. In the end, they do not gear up for the sole purpose of bringing back a haul of wall eyed pike or edible perch. They also go out in the spirit of that great adventure novelist John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), who once peered beneath the surface of the water and caught the essence of the sport: "The charm...
...Eliot, yet the fascination so widespread during his lifetime has hardly subsided. While few men have been the object of so much respectful scrutiny, so much speculation about the meaning of every word they have written, equally few have been so bitterly resented. Even now, incompatible reactions continue to thrive. With them swells the horde of over one thousand books (and counting) on Eliot--biographies, criticism, memoirs, recollections, analyses. T.S. Matthews's Great Tom is one more goose from this gaggle, peddling no easy answers to the Eliot enigma. Its value lies in its subject: As Ezra Pound said...
...contact with women scattered throughout the campus, time to study how women function here. Communication (if only there were a lesstired word) will be the key to the success of an office in such an embryonic stage. Clearly the Office of Women's Education needs money to grow and thrive...
Despite Frazier's outrageous excesses, he is an original whose following keeps coming back for more. "The whole trouble with this era," muses Frazier, "is that there is very little eccentricity. An age is great in art and every other way in proportion to the eccentrics who thrive in that time." What other eccentric would confound his readers by observing the Red Sox's winning baseball opener in Latin...
...tyrants who rule the world and brutalize its people thrive on ignorance, doubt and suspicion. Truth is radical; it works like water gently seeping, eating away at the structures of oppression. I no longer think of a university as necessarily a staging ground for the Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers and the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they betray...