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...refuse to acknowledge--in their introductory essays. In the Webster "Tabular History of the English Language," the "Developments since 1800" list cryptically notes, "Oxford, Century and Merriam-Webster in high-flying company. Oxford, on the other hand, goes on for several pages about the OED and James Murray's gallant 37-year struggle to publish the weighty tome, but does not even mention the Webster edition. War simmers among the lexicographers...
What the Agrarians fought for, in every word, in every gallant and eccentric gesture, was the lost cause of civilization built upon three visibly endangered species: courtesy, sensibility and learning. They have the distinction of being the last body of literary men with the self-confidence to instruct their fellow Americans on how to live. These generalists, these gentle men of letters, promulgated their code as assertively as up-to-date experts-psychologists, urban planners, sex therapists-lay down their laws today...
Yale, behind the gallant gallops of brilliant tailback Rich Diana, rumbled past Princeton for the 14th straight year, snapping the Tigers' five-game winning streak and assuring itself of at least a share of the Ivy title for the third time in four seasons...
...Dean M. Gallant, executive officer for the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at Harvard University, said yesterday he was not surprised Harvard students comprise the largest group selected for the study. He explained that the drugs are probably on a par with Valium and Librium, and that Harvard students are a "very rich, upwardly mobile, and sophisticated" group--the type usually associated with the use of those drugs...
...Meade describes Blavatsky, she was a gallant figure, cheerfully aware of skidding toward disaster, always ready with a bizarre scheme to rescue herself and her bemused followers. Toward the end, in the 1880s, matters seemed hope less. She was living in exile in Germany, fat, sick, impoverished, deserted by the faithful and under attack for fakery by the Society for Psychical Research. The reader feels like cheering when she turns up a few months later in London, outrageous as ever, leaking cosmological eye wash with every wheeze, as the head of a large and adoring band of occultists...