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...their great light most writers of another, older sort look pale and foolish. It is not an age of literary craftsmen; most of the wordsmiths (and, lacking ideas, that is what many of them are) are left to moan about bad grammar and teach composition...
...educations are inferior and little more than a necessary nuisance to people like Mr. Mazumdar. American liberalism has a strong connection with education and intellectualism, a connection that often breeds a blind arrogance and goes far to defeat its preached tenets. The thoughtless self-indulgence of Mr. Mazumdar's foolish editorial is exactly the sort of thing one hopes not to find in persons as loftily educated as he seems to assume himself to be. "Learning Class Zero?" Paul D. Erickson GSAS
...prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...
...take an extremely pessimistic and also somewhat obsolete projection and then offer that as a best guess is really foolish," Eckstein said, according to the Post- Dispatch report. Eckstein could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Grabar contends that most departments will recognize the Skocpol case as an aberration, explaining that "I don't think that the department [Fine Arts] could be foolish enough to come to a formal vote as Sociology did" in failing to promote Skocpol. In response to Rosovsky's advice that the departments hire more women and to the recently-implemented minority and women faculty study, though. Grabar says Fine Arts will now stress finding strong female candidates more than identifying needy subfields in the department and then trying to find individuals to fill them. However, he cautions. "The subfields...