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...temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part is unnecessary. The maxim Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner is poison here...
...Francisco, after winning a twelve-round decision in a nontitle bout with Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles gave a dressing-room interview. Said the ranking contender for another crack at the title Joe Walcott took away from him last July: "I think I can whip anyone in the world until they beat...
...felt, wrote Lodge later, "that it [journalism] was at least the equal of the law as training for political life." And young Lodge was definitely headed for the political life. "The discussion of political topics is one of the first things I can remember," he wrote. "An important maxim to remember is 'don't be an amateur.' The job of being a professional politician, in spite of the odium which some persons have falsely attached to it, is a high and difficult...
...blood & sweat money. Always a deadline worker, Arno lashes himself through grueling 24-and 36-hour stints. Credited with inventing the one-line caption, Arno says: "I suppose it appealed to me particularly because my English grandfather . . . had taught me that brevity was the soul of wit-a surprising maxim to come from a lifelong reader of Punch...
Until a Russian-born tenor named Maxim Karolik came along, the first half of the 19th Century was rated a mediocre period in U.S. art. American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with rusty, romantic sunsets and tight, bright genre scenes. The dreamy landscapes of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt's Wagnerian-mood pictures of the Rocky Mountains were considered the best...