Word: exaltedness
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Unofficial Conversion. Miller also decided to return to Esalen, where the residents had taken over the maintenance and service chores to offset the center's financial deficit. He pitched in as a combination waiter, bartender and supply sergeant with the exalted title of "wine steward." Team spirit worked miracles...
Meantime, legislators have grown reluctant to bail out campuses with more tax money. Irked voters have demoted academe from its once-exalted place in the U.S. pantheon. Some view colleges as subversive sanctuaries-or perhaps sanatoriums-for a privileged caste of professors and long-haired scoffers at cherished values. Worse...
Justice is sometimes served in mysterious ways. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun told a commencement day audience at Hamline University last week that when he took his place on that exalted bench, he was amazed to find that each Justice had a box of cough drops in a drawer...
I might add that I think Tony Hill got the identity of "A. R.". author of one of the better articles in the current issue of HJAA, all wrong. Instead of being "a black writer living outside of the country," he inhabits a somewhat less exalted state than that: a...
Let's take a deep deep breath and then say it. As a dramatist, Samuel Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in...