Word: arguments
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...written book about quotations, this isn't it. However, it does bring to mind how much you'll enjoy rereading Bartlett's. Every page of this book is padded with the author's insistent belaboring of the obvious. A key quotation is also omitted: the argument he used to get his book published with a grant from the Ford Foundation...
These shortcomings aside, there is something to be learned from scanning Quotemanship. Instead of simply listing his thousands of fascinating quotes-ranging from Gangster Al Capone on the American free-enterprise system to one Morris Zelditch on fluoridation-Historian Boller has chosen to weave them into a convincing argument for fair play in the use of quotations. But no matter how much harm may be done by distorting quotes, he demonstrates that the unretouched, straight quote can be most damaging of all. Practically everybody at one time or another has made statements that would better have been left unsaid...
...Teaching Fellow junior grade. These scholarships in fact raise the total income of a Teaching Fellow junior grade above that of a Teaching Fellow senior grade. This is the time to point out that various forms of payment to Teaching Fellows cannot be separated for purposes of argument. They come from the same source, and go to the same people...
There were two parts to the argument of the article. First, the primary objective is to develop a way to reverse the Vietnam policy represented by President Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow, including, if necessary, the President's defeat in the 1968 election. If the goal were simply "How to Remove LBJ in '68," the title supplied the piece by the New Republic, then Mr. Lardner's jibe about the argument being "internally ridiculous" would be correct, for, if that is one's sole goal, the answer is obvious: vote Republican in 1968. However, things aren't that simple...
...fact, contrary to Mr. Lardner's strictures that the argument recognizes the impossibility of electoral success and therefore "fails to inspire" enthusiasm, it is precisely the point that the left must become much more sophisticated in its definitions of "success." It could even be, though I personally doubt it, that the demonstrated willingness of the left to organize a potential third party, might encourage President Johnson to reverse his policy and thus make it possible to vote for him in 1968. Or, it might be decided to run candidates against the President in the Democratic primaries in an effort...