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...illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of psuedofacts...
...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." (Philosophy...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived." Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said...
...Grisham's The Firm eventually took Tom Cruise's running man into the presence of his chief tormentors. But Roberts' running woman gets to confront only a few members of the supporting cast, all of whom -- Culp aside -- are drably written and impossible even for actors as good as Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow and John Heard to sink a fang into. And we never get to see, even in the shadows that are a Pakula specialty, Mr. Big -- who has ordered the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices...
...summit in Brussels to discuss the crisis privately, and agreed on the urgency of continuing talks on the future of Ulster. They concurred that all parties, including the I.R.A. and Protestant terrorist groups, could take part in negotiations if they ceased their terror campaigns. Before the Shankill bombing, John Hume, M.P. from Ulster, and Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., had been discussing a new agenda for a peace plan. That was an indication that perhaps the I.R.A. had had enough of the killing game. But when Adams appeared as a pallbearer at bomber...