Word: tiveness
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...Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their own moods matter. Still, it is collective psychology--collec tive mood--that drives the economy up and down, and not the other way around...
...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alterna tive to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in in verse ratio to accuracy. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss a satis factory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would be preferable to alcohol...
...than-dignified conception through the notoriety and fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate on film to a gory suburban piece of horror schlock, without traces of the charm and humor of the book...
Movable Scar. At a guess, it is fa miliarity with the social usages of his na tive England and the accumulated non sense of the medium in which he works that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given...
...addition to these five administra-tive Vice Presidents, another post, specifically dealing with educational affairs, would be created. The Executive Vice President for Education would be able to speak for the President on matters of educational policy both inside and outside the University. He would serve as a liason between the President and the Deans and act as the President in his absence...