Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Sagan clearly wrote the book for a general public, he should have trodden gingerly when he encountered political and religious issues. His consistent bumbling in these spheres is the unintentional leit-motif of Broca's Brain. When in doubt. Sagan shies away from the secular implications of his lofty ideas. In the course of declaring, for example, that we will one day have robots for garbagemen (at current prices, the human version are "expendable"). Sagan mentions hastily that "the effective re-employment of those human beings must, of course be arranged; but...that should not be too difficult." Such...
...crying and laughing at the same time with mass outbursts of all their excitement and it was Absolute Reality: hair being torn from the roots, cops being ruffled, clothes ripped from backs as souvenirs, runaways jumping from roofs, a teardrop on the still asphalt upon which heroes had just trodden, and the helicopter took them back to studioland. The music was the reality, at a time when not even the ongoing war could captivate and stir so many of its sufferers until years after the music itself had arrived...
...Mother." We know it on sight. We sense that a Samson might have won her respect but never an "Abmaphid ... A.B. ... M.A. ... Ph.D." As "the bog in the history department," Gazzara's professorial George is detached but not desiccated. His wry grin portends revenge. He is a much trodden worm with a cobra's fangs. The less thankful roles of the subsidiary couple are less thankfully played. The giggly Anderman seems to have inhaled laughing gas rather than downed tumblers of brandy, and Kelton's Nick is docile enough to have made Martha...
Diehl's genuine concern for the down-trodden young extends further than his ties with mercuric collegiate pheenoms who may rise to the galactic reaches of the NBA. His regular profession is that of probation officer. He invariably works with 17 to 23 year olds, who are mainly drug offenders. "It's kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC...
...when it came down to the final game of the season Saturday night in Boston Garden between the best two teams in Division One, Harvard and Boston University, it was that time honored and well-trodden cliche that beat the Crimson: "the goaltender with the hot hand." In Saturday's case it was tournament MVP Eddie Walsh in the Boston University goal that backboned the Terriers' 4-2 championship victory...