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...previous construction of three distinct civilizations." In the same way he acknowledges that his list of "arrested civilizations" is "capricious." Moreover, he tacitly agrees that he forced facts into theories when he writes: "I have also neglected to try other keys where the Hellenic key has not fitted the lock. These were faults, I confess...
...Reminiscent of an old story remembered around Cambridge about an indignant proper Bostonian who complained that Harvard students were rowdies and urged President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell to lock the Yard gates. Lowell's polite reply: "Should I lock the students...
...Henry Myers, Lyricist E. Y. Harburg-trying to unite Aristophanes and Offenbach. Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony. For plot they have gone to Lysistrata, with its inspired, antiwar idea of having wives lock their bedroom doors to make their husbands lay down their arms. But in production terms that idea has recurrently inspired more bad taste and ponderous bawdry than it was ever worth, and if The Happiest Girl is no more than middling lewd, it is so clangingly loud and heavy...
Jenkins calls himself an "abstract phenomenist." When he has finished four or five paintings. "I have conversations with them, and they tell me what they want to be called-like Phenomena Outside Leap or Phenomena Curving Out or Phenomena Flint Lock." As James Jones said, it is sometimes difficult to know what the hell he is talking about. But his liquid abstractions can speak for themselves...
They see attentiveness being killed by the dull or incomprehensible textbook, and by the lock-step teaching that bores the bright and overtaxes the dull. The principle of "praise and rewards" is diluted by everything from the sarcastic teacher to the delayed exam grade; teachers have in fact commonly used the threat of failure to induce learning...