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Most of the latter half of the above statement is incorrect. Our laboratory was the first to report that the lipide-lowering effect [produced by vegetable fat] was directly related to the degree of unsaturation of a natural fat and also the first to report that synthetic fats containing linoleic acid and subsequently pure ethyl linoleate (linoleic acid is the major polyunsaturated fatty acid of vegetable oil) would lower plasma lipides to a profound degree in the absence of any of the other components of vegetable fats...
...quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect...
...Soldier Mac-Arthur never faded away from any dromedary. Recalled MacArthur: "About 1885, when my father [General Arthur Mac-Arthur] was in command of Fort Selden, New Mexico, I saw a camel feeding near the post guardhouse. I was then five years old. It would be incorrect to say I was frightened, but I was certainly excited to see such a strange animal...
Minor observations: Professor Riesman's statement that the men who produced the Daedalus symposium on arms control were "mad rationalists" Is incorrect, dangerously misleading, detrimental to his cause, and symptomatle of the under-current of panic which has affected some of our best minds. We have the good images: We need good ideas. The fall 1960 issue of contains Ideas in rich profusion. Professor Riesman's speech did not. His upon the importance of the virility age" In the American male, and its sense in American Motherhead, factors in our foreign policy, seems little everdone. He is correct, however about...
...Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian tombs "as country houses in the Hereafter and the mummies as denizens of a world of never-ending childhood, buried with their toys of gold or clay . . . yet that 'country' is eternity...