Word: gustibus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Connolly excluded Huckleberry Finn and Henry Adams is justifiable: de gustibus non est disputandum. To exclude the major German, Russian and other European writers merely because, it appears, Connolly could not read them in the original is unpardonable. We might as well ignore the Bible because we cannot read it in the original Aramaic and Greek...
...Gustibus...
...with occasional quotations, foreign phrases, and literary allusions. When his parents observed that he had stopped going to church on Sundays he quipped, hardly to their amusement, "Gott ist tot, you know." When one of his roommates complained that Herbert badly needed a haircut, he answered gravely "De gustibus..." and left it to his listener to supply the ending. And when his other roommate asked to borrow ten dollars for a date, Herbert came back with "Neither a borrower nor a lender be, and it shall follow as night the day thou canst not be false...