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Fragrance Without Substance. But while lighting up obscure corners of the past and its unremembered versifiers and belle-lettrists, Brooks seems unable to evoke the accumulating tension of U.S. life during the '50s and '60s. The Civil War itself plays no role in his book except insofar as it impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln...
...Inter-House Committee will be formed to aid the Council group in dealing with food and dining hall problems insofar as they concern only a particular House...
...quality of U.S. democracy, said Conant, is its belief in equality of opportunity in a fluid society. High inheritance taxes "reflect the American belief in a fluid society without a hereditary privileged class. . . . High taxes on earned incomes have the reverse effect ... on the fluidity of our society. Therefore, insofar as the national expenditures permit, the case for keeping income taxes low is overwhelming, both in terms of social ideals and incentives." The present system of taxation, Conant warned, "is having a profound effect on the incentives which thus far in our history have contributed to the taking of risks...
...feel that insofar as we are a part of the labor movement, we should endorse labor candidates with good records," Professor Miller asserted last night in commenting an Ackerly and Sullivan...
...certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...