Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wild impersonation of John Witchboy, the character in Richardson and Berney's Dark of the Moon. Like David, he was the sort of intense and spiritual person who, in talking to you, would look right into your eyes and make you feel like you were the only person who understood him, who he could relate to. Then he would turn, completely genuine, and make the next person feel the same way. He was like this with everyone." Soon afterwards, in New York, Schwartz began the play, using the legend and psalms of King David as a starting point...
These seemingly diffuse attitudes find their unity in bourgeois fantasy life, which is perhaps the point. Skinner is in many ways a bourgeois moralist. The excitement of Kinkade and her friends upon reading about Walden Two (it was "everything I had ever wanted," she gushes) can best be understood by viewing it as a garden of forbidden delights, but in which the institutions whose repressions create the fantasy remain intact. One can go about pleasing the senses only after he has felt the satisfaction of work well done. The titillations of adultery and free sex induce a dizziness curable...
...University must take moral leadership in reversing what the signers of the letter called "old attitudes and traditional procedures," the latter of which they termed "informal and simply 'understood...
...nothing sacred? Apple pie went out with calories, motherhood has been limited, and in this sacred moment as we honor our P.O.W.s you desecrate and belittle them. "They had obeyed orders, dealt in death and presumably understood the odds and consequences." Let me be counted with those who view this devotion to duty with heartfelt thanks, for they have preserved the very freedom of this country so that you may publicly print insults the very first week they are free...
...reported that "three of the four participants in the meeting [with President Bok and Daniel Steiner] strongly opposed the conclusions of the report. We have since found this was incorrect. In fact, all four of the participants opposed both the report and the Storm King Project. We had understood incorrectly that Calvin Stillman was there. However, he presented his views in another form. According to reliable sources, his views are not shared by the remainder of the family. The Editors