Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When American "educators" proceed to draw a this line, between intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity...
...because of rising expenses, "when the last veteran leaves, Harvard will be able to offer less scholarship aid, in real terms, than before...
...these last days before the race the crews are spending less time on the river and the silence over the Thames is shattered by frequent impromptu quartets. Red Top musicals are more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
...writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory is safe from the skilled glance of the Thought Police. Slowly but surely, the old English language, with its treasury of dangerous thoughts and mischievous expressions, is being steamrollered flat and converted into "Newspeak"-a toneless, crimethink-less cablese...
...Behind the Curtain, the faults of the Gunther system are more noticeable than the virtues. Written after a six-month trip through Eastern Europe, Behind the Curtain says little of. importance about its fascinating subject that newspaper and magazine readers are not likely to know. It has less insight into national behavior and outlook than the Inside books, and few ideas not readily found in the U.S. left-of-center press...