Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parodies, an Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. With wit and a leaven of malice, the editor has compiled and annotated the best collection yet of that curious art in which the pen is wielded while the thumb is fixed firmly to the nose...
...biggest roadblock to token integration in New Orleans schools is not the picket line of screaming women but the rabble-rousing state legislature, under the thumb of songwriting Governor Jimmie (You Are My Sunshine) Davis. Early in the six-week-old battle of New Orleans, Federal Judge J. Skelly Wright issued a series of sweeping injunctions to prevent Governor and legislators from intervening, by one legal subterfuge or another, with integration...
...just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb mechanic type of fellow." And there is William Shockley, who with two colleagues (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) earned a 1956 Nobel Prize for creating the transistor?that hugely useful little solid-state device that has made possible everything from the fob-sized portable radio to the fantastic instrumentation that...
...during the intermission and explained that she had just begun guitar lessons and wanted to know how much practicing it would take until she could play "without looking." So Seeger offered his audience some advice on playing the guitar: "See how you strum; just keep the beat with your thumb, and it's as easy as walking. Of course it takes you two years to learn how to walk...
...Loeb make the realization of this sentiment difficult but not impossible. It is true that the choice of other theatres is small; the Pi Eta theatre is no longer available and there are difficulties in using Agassiz. But if undergraduate groups are to escape the collective Faculty thumb and maintain more than an appearance of independent control they must assert their ability to produce elsewhere...