Word: arnolds
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...carried him 305 yds. down the fairway, a crisp No. 4 iron nicked the green-and a curling 35-ft. putt plunked in the cup for an eagle three. Score for the day: a record eight-under-par 64 that gave him a two-stroke lead over Defending Champion Arnold Palmer. Nobody got any closer. Over the next three days, Nicklaus shot rounds of 68, 72 and 69; he had only one three-putt green in the entire tournament, and his 72-hole total of 273 was five strokes better than those of Runners-up Palmer and Tony Lema...
...MATTHEW ARNOLD-LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM (578 pp.)-Vol. Ill in a ten-volume series edited by R. H. Super -University of Michigan...
...Sweetness and light" was not the best of phrases even in Victorian times. Besides, Matthew Arnold had borrowed it from Jonathan Swift. But the eminent Victorian poet-critic's oft-quoted formula for mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...
This is a pity. Despite an occasional ultra-rarefied phrase, Arnold was the most trenchant critic of his century-a fact which has inspired Professor Super's mammoth scholarly edition of all his scattered works. He was also a worldly, witty man whose comments most of the time could apply to the ills of our age as well as to those...
...Darkling Plain. Arnold began, almost a century before Sartre, as something very like a modern existentialist. "Let us be true to one another.'' he wrote in Dover Beach, for the world Hath really neither joy, nor love nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night...