Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughin' matter. Your reporter hasn't paid the price of a haircut lately. No one in his right mind could have had a grudge against sweet, mellow Mr. Anastasia. Umberto must have been mistaken for the head of the local barbers' union...
Since when is crime a laughing matter among supposedly civilized people? I was aghast at the cynical attitude you took at Albert Anastasia's murder-and murder...
...part, we have always looked forward to the Yale game. It is refreshing to meet our clean-living Rivals Through The Centuries, and see how wonderfully they have progressed since we founded their alma matter a few centuries ago. They dress so nicely, and are so delightfully clean-shaven, and one always knows that they will be such wonderful financial successes in life. We like Yale--it's much milder...
...basic assumption is that men are best educated when prodded with examinations. Only a very few students are credited with the ability to learn for the sake of the material, and it is assumed that they will learn no matter what sort of formal curriculum may stand in their...
...picked up there belonged to a previous chair-warmer at the same establishment, Bernard Shaw. It is that the Life Force makes everything make sense. Presumably this is the sense, if any, of Wilson's conclusion: "If life did not pervade space and time, the universe of matter would be tohubohu, complete chaos." As for the present state of Colin Wilson's mind and thought-tohu-bohu...