Word: epigrammarian
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Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov's pithy reports on the progress of the secret sessions ("What is long is good"; "Where there are roses, there are also thorns") have won him a reputation among newsmen as the leading epigrammarian among the Big Four. At the end of last week's three-day session he said only, "No comment." When Abrasimov is ready to be more specific, it may well indicate that a historic agreement has been struck...
This damnation by faint praise is the result of the prevalent idea that college is exclusively a preparation for life and thus is quite removed from actual living. Judged entirely on a basis of earning capacity, this is, in most cases, quite true. But where is that epigrammarian who will say: living is earning a living? Or where is that educator who will say: we are speculating with amorphous clay which will not come to life until we give it the power to earn a daily wage? To consider the college years as a pleasant pre-natal period before...
...species in her true place. "About Women" continues to chase the question throughout three hundred intelligently written pages, and eventually finds the elusive place a pleasant one after all. The man who ventures into the turbulent waters of the Woman Question is liable to be termed a misanthropic epigrammarian disappointed in love and oryptically left to sink or swim by at least one of the New Women. John Macy chose to swim and in so doing has written a book which may leave a mark under a few permanent waves...
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