Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard student, or even of the Southern student at Harvard. They are rather the "old verities and truths of the heart." Faulkner's insistence on these verities became a recurrent theme whenever he talked about his own works, and beneath the sometimes self-conscious insistance lay a kernel of truth that gives Faulkner's body of writings a permanent place in world literature...
...quartet may be stormy, but its violence has no chaos or uncertainty, and the Claremont Quartet captured that assurance. Moevs's brash lines knew their they were going, and good coordination kept their melodic independence clear. The Quartet made the piece's kernel patterns of rhythm make good sense, most of all the second movement's curt syncopations...
...assuming that the lessons of truth learned by philosopher, professor, preacher, kings through protracted thought and laborious revelation can be taught to the average man. Is the "supreme worth" to be patiently taught and docilely learned, or is it rather to be discovered amongst wickedness, desire and imperfection, a kernel of redeeming grace...
Vanishing American. Despite such slips, Lolly's habitual double-checking usually ensures that the kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen...
...approval, Fulbright cites Sir Anthony Eden's recent proposal that the Atlantic communities form a "political general staff," akin to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II, to meet today's monolithic Communist threat. But Fulbright would carry the idea a step further: for the kernel of his plan, he turns to 19th century history and the remarkable alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia-and later, defeated France as well-built at the Congress of Vienna in the wake of the Napoleonic wars...