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...science; and every superior teacher, like every superior artist, though he may begin by imitation, eventually develops his own individual style . . . Like the actor, the teacher must . . . throw himself into his part-but he has to walk his stage alone! Rules and systems will avail him little. Only his personality can make him successful...
...tale of striking workmen, and La Terre, a brutal epic of farm life. For 25 years, as his books peddled the "black poetry" of pessimism and garbled heredity under the name of hard fact, men of state and men of letters rose to protest-but not to much avail-that Zola was lying. Millions read Zola's books...
...rioters began to pull trolley poles from the wires, the police trotted out their trusty tear gas guns. They fired the gas right into the face of the crowd, but to no avail except for the fainting of one woman...
Suddenly, hour exams were breathing hot and furiously down the necks of '55. Desperate cramming and questioning of roommates were to no avail as the whetted intellectual hatchet chopped inexorably into the egos of this year's yearlings. When the smoke...had cleared, when the mental debris had been removed, frosh found themselves baptized by fire and ready to take on midyear exams...
Says he: "There would be a touch of megalomania in the project . . . but without megalomania of this sort, nothing can be done, for we have reached that stage of intellectual decay where little things will not avail...