Word: exaltedness
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Plumbers & Philosophers. Johnson quoted a passage from one of Gardner's books, Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? Wrote Gardner: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither...
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Today, he says, "my home is hotel rooms." He is a man without a country, without an orchestra, without a recording contract. All he has instead is his talent and an exalted vision. He says: "I have never compromised."
The relevance of that vision was summed up by Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the opening session. "John XXIII presented to the world a public philosophy for a nuclear era," said Humphrey. "It represents not a Utopian blueprint for world peace, presupposing a sudden change in the nature of man...
The scene is from Seduced and Abandoned, the uproarious and poignant film satire on Sicily's exalted, exasperating code of honor. Pretty Maria Furnari, 19, might have been the heroine of that movie. She lived a secluded life in Piazza Armerina, a town of 28,000 set in the...