Word: canted
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...files from Willwerth and White came by telex, Associate Editors Peter Stoler and Gilbert Cant got down to the job of medical mystery writing. Cant concentrated on the history of epidemics in the U.S. and on how scientists identify disease-causing agents. He recalled an earlier medical mystery in TIME: the 1957 case of a woman beauty parlor operator who lived in one of the hottest parts of Florida and whose varied and puzzling symptoms were finally diagnosed as Iceland disease...
...that lifelong leftists would not collapse like toy boats at the salvos of Solzhenitsyn, a Russian Orthodox dogmatic and rightist. What mindlessness. I guess Wolfe called the piece "The Intelligent Co-ed's Guide to America" because in his tough-minded telling of the facts and courageous exposure of cant he believes himself the new Bernard Shaw...
This book leads inexorably to the latter conclusion. What emerges from all the cant and posturing is a very different picture of Albert Speer from what he would like: a cold-blooded, amoral man, lacking the most basic concepts of right and wrong, who even now cannot grasp the horror he did so much to perpetrate. Historian Eugene Davidson was wrong when he wrote of Speer, "whatever he lost when he made his pact with Adolf Hitler, it was not his soul." Albert Speer did lose his soul. Worse yet, he never missed...
...both men and women. What is needed is not an assertion of rights and human actions, but a humble submission to God and his word. From there the church can be reconstructed in our technological age and confront it with a powerful gospel that is radically different from the cant of our modern times. The theological issue is at the root of the whole debate. Kenneth G. Brownell '76 Douglas...
...good citezenship and good fellowship. If they occasionally snarl or squabble over a bone, the battle is short and direct and the motive far more pressing than tenure or trendiness. If some of them are not too bright, they make no effort to veil the fact under layers of cant and credentials. And, on the whole, they seem to be the only individuals in Cambridge who really enjoy themselves most of the time. Long life and good times to them; may they always be there, in the Yard, to keep us from losing sight of the obvious and the eternal...