Word: cavil
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...need to cavil at the foresight of its architects who planned the stacks so that they are as accessible to the common Harvard student as the burial chamber of Cheops to the common Egyptian serf; and in Fine Arts le Professor Koehler will probably continue to compare the exterior dimensions of Widener to those of the Parthenon, unaware of the irony should his listeners be inclined to contrast their interiors...
...Same or Different? From Socialism to G. O. P., from New Republic to Herald Tribune, these are transitions which the contemners of Walter Lippmann today cannot forgive and will not allow to be forgotten. Although his sincerity is above cavil and his personality above bitterness, they question whether the lucidity of his writing (the Herald Tribune once billed him in phrases borrowed from the American Magazine as "The Man with the Flashlight Mind, the Great Elucidator") is more than a meretricious semblance hiding a confused mind...
...historical experience shows without cavil that this very voice of authority can turn back on the well-intentioned reformers who use it like a boomerang. In any society where liberties are crumbling away, the tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority...
...terms of the two men were not brought to a close because of prejudice or bias on the part of the University, the Student Council has put a stop to what ever shred of doubt might still remain in the public mind. The council's action shows clear beyond cavil that academic freedom has not been violated, and that the men have been cut off because of the general conditions of promotion that prevail with in the College. So far as Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy are concerned, the controversy in ended...
...extreme latitude which is already granted to the term 'novel' must be extended even further to include what Houghton Mifflin's blurb writer calls "A unique and beautiful novel. . ." No reader who finishes Mr. Harriss' delightful book will cavil at the adjectives 'unique and beautiful'; one must add, however, that it is not a novel in any of the several meanings which the word...