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...least convincing arguments on taxation since the days when square-riggers carried marked-up tea to Boston. Noting that the Canterbury city council makes an annual grant to the almshouses in the nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Beckett, the conscience-stricken Henry II ordered the grant to the almshouses to be made in perpetuity. Hence, chirps Urry, "every time anyone living...
...Abbott has grown permissive towards arm-waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...
Though no philosophy particularly excites them, existentialism-especially that of the early Camus-comes closest. But some professors have profound doubts as to whether young Americans really understand what existentialism is all about. A Princeton professor recently told a student: "Your generation hasn't the foggiest conception of existentialism. Kierkegaard and Pascal seem merely to be chic in cocktail conversation...
...just met for the first time sat eating breakfast in Pasadena's Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. One of the men was a U.S. Senator who had come to town to see the jet-propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. But the Senator seemed to have only the foggiest notion of who the other man was. "What department are you in at Caltech?" asked the Senator. Replied his companion: "Physics...
...have to wait, Rosen believes, until the scientists have made some basic discovery equal in novelty to Faraday's discovery of electromagnetism. A beam of high-speed particles pushed at close to the speed of light by nuclear energy might do the trick. No one yet has the foggiest idea about...