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North Carolinians, who sometimes call their state "a valley of humiliation between two mountains of conceit," last week had something to crow about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
This same lack of perspective occasionally results in passages that are magnificent in their display of conceit and paranoia. For example, describing his flight from the Communist Party in 1938, he writes, "I therefore decided to try first of all to smash the secret apparatus by myself." His fear of the violence the Party would commit against his person for his desertion not only led him to write at night with a pistol by his hand but ultimately allowed him to write in Witness: "We traveled lightly and I drove as fast as possible. I knew that the Party...
Your March 10 account of Entomologist R. C. Bushland's method of reducing the population of screwworm flies [by breeding sterile males] reminds me of the conceit that...
...story concerns a bandit's attack on a man and his wife, the robbery and murder of the husband, and the rape of the woman. In Rashomon, this story is told four times--by the bandit, the man, the woman, and a hidden spectator. The teller's shame and conceit color each account, so that four completely different stories emerge, with only the barest similarity between them...
...schoolboy, John Keats was handy with his fists. One of his friends later recalled that "he would fight anyone-morning, noon and night, his brothers among the rest." Nothing in the boy suggested the conceit of the prodigy, and when he began writing verse a few years later, he assumed none of the pale, bohemian attitudes of the precious poet...