Word: imprimature
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...There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given the imprimatur of a really alert censor, its only quotable stanza being...
...second question: 'What does the imprimatur mean?' It is the right to print. It so happens that I do not only find in Father Coughlin's addresses nothing against the faith and morals but I do most heartily approve their content. It is a content based on truths which I have directed him to preach...
...Freely I give him my imprimatur on his written word and freely I give my approval on the spoken word...
...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
...young pedagogue who hopes to negotiate one more rung on the educational ladder is quite aware that, in some form or another, be it a rehashed obscurantism or a highly specialized bit of laboratory research, a book bearing his name on the title-page and the Harvard University Press imprimatur on the fly-leaf is a necessary footstool. Naturally, under such conditions it is unfair to criticize the youthful Ph.D. who lets his lecture notes and tutorial work slide in favor of individual research...