Word: erraticism
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Mrs. Cannon remembers her contemporaries as a stimulated and highly intelligent group. "We came because we really wanted to. The Harvard men called us greasy grinds, but as a matter of fact they married us." An acquaintance of the controversial Gertrude Stein, Mrs. Cannon describes her as "very brilliant and...
Court tennis has changed little since it was played by monks in French monasteries some 700 years ago. and the court itself still reproduces many of the original hazards. The opening in the wall called the dedans might have been a water trough, and the player who can hit a...
"... I was in Law School at that time and both Leo Stein and his sister impressed me as bright young Freshmen with independent and a little erratic notions--notions, of course, which they expressed much more modestly and pressed less strenuously upon older people than they did habitually later.
Defending his admissions' policy, Dean Bender said yesterday that "I do not think we should judge the success or failure of our policy on a single shift like this." The class of '61, he noted, "has many people who are very interesting, but also risky and erratic."
Up the Ladder. Sam Clemens was the most erratic of autobiographers. Just about the only event of his life that he set down in conventional autobiographical manner was the beginning: "I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri . . . The village...