Word: bloat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...report, entitled "Education in the Junior High School Years," Conant sharply criticizes schools which over emphasize athletics or pretentious academic ritual at the cost of basic intellectual skills. Problems Conant particularly emphasizes include: communities that bloat the importance of a junior high school "senior"; the inability of many ninth graders to read even at sixth grade level; lack of coordination between a community's junior and senior high schools; and frequently a lack of coordination between grades in the junior high school itself...
...Whenever there is a political bloat, Mort sticks a pin in it," says Hubert Humphrey. Among his constituents Sahl counts Adlai Stevenson, who sees him regularly when Sahl is in Chicago. Says Adlai: "I dote on him." Sahl contributed a joke bank that John Kennedy drew on for his witty performance at last November's Al Smith Dinner, once discouraged a Nixon worker who approached him for a similar purpose. As for President Eisenhower, he has never heard of Mort Sahl -possibly because the comedian refers to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty as "Ike's right foot." But Sahl...
...disgust with sex not only inspires one of the finest sonnets ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action"), but it erupts with sour rancor in all the major tragedies but Macbeth. With almost prurient relish, Hamlet chides his mother not to let the "bloat king" with his "reechy kisses" tempt her again to bed. The eightyish Lear, who might be presumed past sex obsession, works himself up into a fury on the devil in woman's flesh...