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...speech, Martin used quotes from figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Trollope, David Hume and George Hegel to illustrate what he called the prevalence of racism...
...most important paramilitary groups of Protestant loyalists, plus a smaller one, announced that they too would "cease all operational hostilities" effective midnight Oct. 13. The prospects of an end to 25 years of bloodshed seemed brighter. "It's a great day for the people of Northern Ireland," said John Hume, leader of Ulster's Social Democratic and Labour Party...
...actresses had invested theatrical glamour with such elegance and intelligence as Jessica Tandy. So when she appeared at the ceremony with her husband Hume Cronyn to accept the first-ever Tonys for Lifetime Achievement, a hush fell on the heart of Broadway. Most of those in attendance knew that for five years Tandy had been battling ovarian cancer. Most other viewers would realize that the actress, who had turned 85 five days earlier, was in physical distress. That made her patrician poise a brave smile in the face of death. A lady never admits to agony. And Tandy...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with out question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...