Word: facet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerges: each of her books has been a landmark, although on many different courses, and each of them offers, along with her tract "How To Write," a sufficient support for its own art. Many individual pieces are partially meaningless to us; no one person has made his own every facet of her achievement. That their logic is architectoric rather than progressive may make critical formulae inadequate but cannot serve as a serious challenge to the work itself...
...Every facet of this problem of university education has been repeatedly examined under the searchlight of conflicting opinions, but an essential question is worth asking again. Is not the devotion to non-intellectual work for able men a short-sighted procedure, both for themselves and for the community...
...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...