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Word: haphazard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Put-ons Bored of the Rings | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

Inevitable Reactions. By the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the new academicism. A million haphazard abstractions splashed from the hands of virtually every art student able to clasp a brush or wield a tube of paint. A reaction was inevitable, though no one dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From the Brink, Something Grand | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Babylon Times, whose first issue recently sneaked onto the newsstands, is put out mostly by people who've left New York City for the country, where they think they might be able to survive The Fall. A haphazard collection of stories, essays, and poems gathered over the past year, it's Editor John Wilton's way of participating while staying in the woods to observe...

Author: By Rufus Graeme, | Title: From the Shelf The New Babylon Times | 10/9/1969 | See Source »

...their part, the liberals have been a much more haphazard and more open group. They have usually gathered on campus, either in Lehman Hall or in the Littauer lounge. Though no students have attended the conservative group caucuses, the liberals have almost always had students in their crowded meetings, as well as tutors and teaching fellows who cannot attend Faculty meetings...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: FACULTY PLAYS POLITICS | 4/29/1969 | See Source »

...class system?" "Do you belong to the labor movement?") and lots of shots of Sjöman making the film. But the political issues have little meaning or relevance for American audiences, and the efforts to correlate the craft of film making with the plot seem a haphazard and confused exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dubious Yellow | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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