Word: dross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross...
...chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original austerity of the exercises remains...
...Western ears, it was the most dissonant thing he had ever written. It was a letter of penitent thanks to the party for "the assistance which it is giving me to correct my mistakes" (TIME, Feb. 23). Wrote he: "The committee decision separates the gold from the dross in the composer's work. However painful this may be for a number of composers, including myself, I welcome the decision...
...Raft, by Robert Trumbull ($2.50), and They Were Expendable, by W. L. White ($2), came closest to catching the adventure of war without scooping up too much of its bitter dross...
Waugh's hero ghost is ratlike, inexorably likable Basil Seal, the flower of British adventurousness degraded to magenta.* War draws him and his fellow ghosts into one of those ornamental tourniquet-and-candy- box knots which only Waugh knows how to tie. But Waugh's dross and gloss should deceive nobody for long; he has become one of the most deadly serious moralists of his generation. Every one of his novels had its masked importance. History helps make Put Out More Flags his most important book...