Word: distinctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While four branches of the University have arranged distinct calendars to correspond with their own peculiar needs, he predicted that the College would continue the present three-term "demobilization calendar" for four or five years, with unity to be achieved through a common Commencement Day--this year, June...
...raires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic pretentiousness, equivocal dreams, physiological technicalities, morbid tastes and hesitant eroticism . . . an introspective embryo that one would take distinct pleasure in crushing...
...late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that the editor should give the public what it wants. . . . There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will make a paper for morons and exult in the volume of circulation...
...realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...
Hutchins himself is thoroughly gracious, a towering and handsome figure who speaks with distinct self-assurance. One who has been conditioned by descriptions of a sneering cynic finds himself very pleasantly surprised. And while the mellow trimmings to American education are every collegiate's joy, there is good reason to give Hutchins a hearing...