Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is true. This doesn't mean too much freshman year, because a man can still live in the same dorm with his friends who have gone fraternity, and there's nothing really different about his life except a feeling that he should have rushed, or perhaps some bitterness because...
Given better material to work with, the Leverett House actors might have created a very pleasant evening; done with high virtuosity, the plays might have been high entertainment. As it is, except for a long stretch of good comic writing at the beginning of The Marriage, Gogol provides only occasional wisps of straw for these actors to make bricks with...
...Crimson was also handicapped by the absence of the senior golfers who are taking generals this week. Frank Dodge, Allan Steinert, and captain Warren Iliff did not play. Except for their number four man, the Wesleyan team played as well as had been expected. With only one exception, all the Wesleyan scored in the seventies...
...movie as a representation of the novel fails completely except for Cobb's performance. There is no Grand Inquisitor, none of the sequences from the portion of the novel called "The Boys," and the climactic trial scene contains none of the excitement and meaning which Dostoevsky was able to give it. As the movie ends, Ivan finds God; Dmitri finds Girl; cold, old Katya finds nothing; and Alexey finds that the workings of God are, as we long suspected, inscrutable...
...David Hume and John Stuart Mill. As such, he is heir to perhaps the most civilized and intelligent tradition in the modern Western world. Like the giants before him, he is distinguished for his analytical brilliance, lucid literary style, sane empiricism, humanistic ethics, courageously enlightened life, and like them, except for Locke, he is a religious agnostic. He is indeed a magnificent fusion of passion and skepticism...