Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose, especially on academically pretentious campuses like Harvard. Although obviously an intellectual, Toffler is not a professor, and he is not particularly concerned about tenure or academic respectability. It is probably safe to speculate that Toffler has not read all the important books that you end up reading sooner or later if you hang around New Haven, Cambridge and Berkeley long enough. Nevertheless, Toffler and his breed seem to show striking originality and an absence of timidity which allows them insouciantly to ignore 300 years of social theory and discredit the work of hundreds of brilliant and dedicated academics...
...GROWS UP, the idealism of youthful individuality inevitably clashes with realities of adult society. Idealists generally learn that survival, or at least comfort, often requires daily compromise of principles, but such compromise is painful and demoralizing. Sooner or later, though, all but the most exceptional learn to play the game and try to make their peace with themselves...
...Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist. In Buñuel's view, life's visible events are random and misleading; the sooner we learn to accept the meaninglessness of reality, the sooner we will begin to understand the buried psychological truths that reality tends to disguise...
...shoot no out of here?," he asks my brother, who does not know, but replies that we might be able to get out in an hour or two. Unfortunately, this is impossible, as the next train through to Cambridge isn't scheduled to leave until the next morning. The sooner the better for him; he does not want us "hanging on and hanging on." He orders us out of the house, then goes to bed. We take him seriously and make plans to depart. Nonsense, we are told by his granddaughter, he doesn't really mean it, Tomorrow he will...
...never been a picnic, the annual football ferocity between the University of Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners. But this year it was strictly M*A*S*H for Texas quarterbacks. On Texas' seventh play, the starting quarterback was scissored by two Sooner defenders and carted off the field with an ankle injury that will keep him out for the season. The second-string signal caller lasted longer-nine plays-before he too went down with a torn knee. From the farthest reaches of the Texas bench came Randy McEachern, a senior quarterback who had sat out last season...