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The third Identity is surprisingly pleasant. With one exception, its verse is successful in its relative simplicity, free from many of the pretensions which so often encumber undergraduate poetry. Its poems deal mainly with the brilliance of love and the relative uselessness of pedantry, a happy thought for the tag...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

It appears that the real issue of the Kohler strike in Sheboygan, Wis. [March 17] is finally coming to light. Does a man still possess the right to manage his own business, or must he and his management become hog-tied in the pull of the myriad strings that encumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Probably one of the few persons in Widener who has a sigh of regret when the library closes at ten each evening is Harry Austryn Wolfson, Harvard's Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. With an enthusiasm unabated today by forty years of research and teaching, Wolfson works...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Search for Baruch | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

The fact that it can hurt you took relatively little prominance in "Come Fill the Cup." Fortunately, there are not enough preachments to encumber the film's lightness.

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

Therefore, I propose that all New Jersey citizens who choose to send their children to private schools, regardless of denomination, creed, or location, sue the Government of the State of New Jersey for the transportation involved. This might deeply encumber the State Treasury if, for instance, many children were sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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