Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heresy's chief weakness is that it begets further heresies. Last week the heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper...
...shown in many words. And while we were at peace, we recognized how terrible war is. We read the dispatches from Europe, telling of Belgium being tortured to extinction, and France agonizing for her very life, shuddered, remarked "War is an awful thing," and turned to the financial page, content with our three full meals a day and our security from lawless nations. We have been told that great wealth is consumed in war, and that brave men die. Which is all very true...
...court made variety an essential ingredient in all art, but few succeeded as well as Purcell in pouring into this exacting mold their own genius. Pergolesi, in Italy fifty years later, was still struggling for artistic homogeneity. Incongruously juxtaposed in the "Stabat Mater" are passages of extreme spiritual content and passages which sound more than anything else like comic opera. Decades were to elapse before a style as unified in spirit as that of Purcell's was to evolve in Italy...
...German coalition attacking us simultaneously in both oceans? The answer to this is, again in the words of Major Eliot, that "considering further the extreme difficulty of coordinating with efficiency the operations of the forces of a great alliance as against a single determined power . . . we may well rest content with a degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean to the other, money might much better be spent on further fortifying the Panama...
...form and content of Celtic 1 are to be changed next year radically. The course will be given as History of Celtic Literature, and will be open to undergraduates as well as to graduates. This year the course, known as Old Irish, centered in grammar and interpretation of texts. This course is now to be called Celtic...