Word: disant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disposed to seek one. It is popular nowadays to assail academic professionalism for its "sterility," "narowness," or "irrelevance." All would agree that a sterile, narrow, person without a proper sense of relevance is a defective human being, but a far worse one is a soi-disant scholar who does not know his business. We think that the primary concern of the Graduate School must be to create authentic professional scholars who do know their business...
Despite the patently dubious purpose expressed in their title, (only pseudo-liberals, after all, would follow the soi-disant President in his current "crusade" for freedom in the world--for goodness knows just what he means by it), the Young Americans for Freedom are preeminently the only group of Junior Citizens (a current term, one believes) that this country dares send to Helsinki this summer to participate in the latest of one of those dangerous Youth Festivals sponsored by the other side...
...likes to think that the CRIMSON BOOKSHELF is rather like a dirigible, which, pumped full of a light and heady Gas that, though adhering to the Laws of the eminent Boyle and the estimable Charles, has, nevertheless, that unfettered property which given materialistic Science--now soi-disant Mistress of all Nature, but once the scullery maid of the great scholastic Doctors, who in their wisdom, their prescience and their closeness to the truths of the human Heart did not denigrate those Books of non-cumulative Knowledge (among which one may number the most precious Jewels in the Diadem of Civilization...