Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Iron Curtain there are millions of Catholics. Their lips may be sealed, their actions hampered, but their minds and their souls still remain unfettered despite their Soviet antichrist masters . . . Isn't it understandable that we should have a man like General Clark in the Vatican to help coordinate this potential strength...
Everyone hates to pay taxes and the new increase isn't going to make anyone any happier, but perhaps if a blood donor were permitted to deduct say $25 from his income tax each time he was a donor, it would make him a little happier tax-wise and also make him feel he was contributing a little more than his dollars to the war effort...
...wasting their words." Philip Toynbee, the historian's son, rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar isn't a horse." Toynbee did admit that some literary motorcars should try to be more like horses. "When Auden writes, 'Gabriel-I didn't mean to let that name out,' or when Miss Sitwell writes of 'Emily...
...wonder he was made into a scapegoat. And as played by English Actor Barry Jones, with brilliant ease and assurance, he takes on genuine personality. Raiding history a second time-for a theme-Anderson contrasts democracy in Athens with dictatorship in Sparta, a parallel with modern times that Anderson isn't the first to note. Though the point is well worth making, Socrates has to be lassoed into making it. Socrates' whole life is too exceptional, his whole method too ironic, for him to be a naturally crusading spokesman...
With this as a basis, the tradition has spread throughout all the college activities. When asked whether he felt that the temptation to cheat on an exam was strong or not, a Princeton senior replied, "Nobody ever thinks of cheating. It's become so traditional in everything that it isn't done. It's as if you and your girl went swimming and she asked you to turn your back while she changed your clothes. Would you turn around?. Well, it's the same way in the honor system...