Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural revolution begun by affluent youth was carried forward by ordinary youth Today, the placards and protests are less evident in the streets, but no matter-- the streets themselves have changed. An intellectually subtle celebration of authenticity, group solidarity, and political direct action has left in its wake (perhaps prepared the way for) a kind of mindless incivility, a pervasive ruthlessness noted by Joan Didion when she observed "the extent to which the toleration of small irritations is no longer a trait much admired in America, the extent to which nonexistent frustration threshold is seen not as psychopathic...
...must learn to do less with more," Fuller said concerning future energy policy. Fuller said this policy had worked in the incorporation of scrap metals by American industry and the use of half-ton satellites to process thousands of tons of data...
Phillips: We [Partisan Review editors] were in the process of evolving in the 1930s. We had been more or less Marxists during the early period. Gradually, we found ourselves questioning Marxism itself as a viable doctrine theoretically, or as a doctrine that explained political activity. The period of gradual change was extended up to the present time. We started focusing more on questions than on answers...
...Manhattanville game was merely "bad," the 17 point loss to the Friars was nothing less than a shipwreck. No one wins with 18 per cent shooting from the floor...
Douglas, cantankerous but noble, wished to stay on the court until a liberal justice could replace him, but he recognized his ill health and retired, less than a week after the conference the authors describe. Douglas knew when his time was up, and if an aged hero tried to stretch his usefulness a few months, so what? Do we need to know that he stank in the process...