Word: tub
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...roots, Christian schools today are found in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes from kindergarten through grade twelve, at academic levels that range from fairly high to very low. Discrimination in favor of religion is a basic raison d'etre, and at the more zealous schools, a tub-thumping suspicion of all nonreligious learning fills the air. In a 150-page how-to-start-a-school guide for would-be organizers, Educator Robert Billings (now a top Reaganite administrator in the Department of Education) warns in capital letters: NO UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE ON THE STAFF...
People always ask how much the combined reunions and Commencement cost the University. Victor Koivumaki '68, the co-chairman of the Commencement Planning Task Force, said last week. But because the organization of Commencement week is divided among several organizations and financially "each tub is on its own bottom," no one can estimate the total cost of all activities, he added...
Providing official funds for student groups would be a major departure from past practice at Harvard, where the traditional philosophy has been "each tub on its own bottom." Dowling says. He adds that just three types of student groups should receive funding through the council: those having short-term financial difficulties, those that need "seed" money to start up, and those that have few alumni or outside supporters (such as some minority groups...
...century and ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine. That question, which now as then elicits all the varying strategies of self-defense--embarrassment, indifference, and dogma--has rarely been asked with greater dignity." Channing was not a tub-thumping, rabble-rousing patriot, nor is Delbanco a wide-eyed and vociferous liberal. Like his subject, he asks what it means to be an American, and successfully depicts the miracles and misfortunes...
...Boswell and Dr. Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise...