Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Participating in this "The Faculty Votes" forum are Professor Edmund M. Morgan, chairman, Professor W. Barton Leach, Professor Warren Abner Seavey, and Professor Richard H. Field. Other speakers have not been named. It is scheduled for October...
...much as I enjoyed your reference to my favorite comic, Li'l Abner, your shallow interpretation of Old Man Mose's warning distressed me. [The warning: "Shmoos, mah boy, is th' greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has ever known...
Obviously, Old Man Mose was referring to the fact that without the challenge of environment there would be no growth of our civilization (see Arnold Toynbee). But after the progressive increase in H.C.L. . . . my household civilization seems arrested anyway, so, going along with Li'l Abner, bring on the shmoos...
...Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner...
...stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good...