Word: maximation
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...favorite maxim of University administrators is that the College derives its greatest strength first from its faculty, and second from its facilities. For the undergraduate, no "facilities" are potentially more important than the Houses, and yet for many they are little more than crowded dormitories with second-rate, although inexpensive, dining rooms...
...name much better known to the average American than to the average Russian. Gromyko's diplomatic career began as a rebuke to the U.S. when Stalin, withdrawing Maxim Litvinoff in 1943 as a protest against the absence of a second front, offhandedly made Litvinoff's 34-year-old secretary the Washington ambassador...
...best group of non-collegiate fencers in Boston proved again last night what has come to be a maxim in the sport--any one fencer, or team, can have at any time either a good day or a bad one. The Salle-Elde club, led by B.U.'s coach, coasted to a 15-12 victory over the Crimson last night in a practice match at the I.A.B...
...years after Gorky's death, director Mark Donskoy began to film the trilogy of which The Childhood of Maxim Gorky is the first part. It is a wonderful film and well deserves the publicity the Brattle has given it. Full of characters that have since become types, the movie evoked, in Eric Erickson's Childhood and Society, a long analysis of the Russian mind. If only in one respect, Erickson is right: the movie is full of Russian life. Each frame is itself a picture; and most are crowded with Gorky's friends, the laborers, convicts, beggars, merchants, clowns...
Autobiography was Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe. As he wrote in his Autobiography: "I imagine myself in my childhood, as a hive to which all manner of simple people brought, as the bees bring honey, their knowledge and thoughts about life, generously enriching my soul with what they had to give. The honey was often dirty, and bitter, but it was all the same knowledge--and honey...