Word: epigrames
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...Auden's house there are still many doors that are closed to the reader of his verse. As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary. But what is real and alive in this volume is the new natural tone in which Auden speaks of himself and the things that go on inside...
...college should not try to prepare one for the real world but rather inculcate ideals for which the student-citizen-to-be will strive once he leaves the Yard for State Street, Wall Street, or Easy Street. A nice thought, perhaps; it could be worked up into a dandy epigram, but it hardly seems worth the space. An expert on eastern culture, Mrs. Rudolph would much better have devoted her energy to scoring the nation's universities for Western parochialism...
...term springs from the widespread use of the cept at Princeton University, which boasts of the small, conversational classes that it calls "precepts." The cept is jokingly defined as "half a concept"-meaning that it is more than a fact but less than a philosophy, more than an epigram but less than an axiom, more than a thesis but less than a synthesis. The Princeton student has it made if he can spot these prized nuggets in rapid reading or sporadic attendance at lectures, spin them out glibly during a precept and, above all, weave them dazzlingly into an exam...
...Epigram into Epic. Legal freedom, of course, does not abolish economic bondage. The heroine shacks up with a tenant farmer and watches a greedy landlord grind him down. Demoralized and dispossessed, the couple drifts to the big city and dissolves into a vast white slum remarkably like Harlem. At the climax, both are caught up in street riots and tandup strikes that gradually evolve into an effective drive for racial equality...
...only Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, rose to a level of sustained epigram. "Even the Germans flinch," he said, "at Sen. Goldwater's mixture of the big stick, the large mouth and the small brain...