Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About his students here and at Oxford, Berlin says, "Very serious, very earnest, very earnest indeed, but only want answers. Don't care about method. Why do I bother leading them round in a maze. Want to know what's good, what's bad. Students in 'twenties drank too much, too gay, didn't work hard enough, but wanted problems. No rush, no short-cuts...
...Beta Kappa is going into the advising business. Freshmen still feeling their way indecisively around the field of concentration maze will be able to ask questions of Harvard's top scholars for three nights next week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday...
...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...
Concluded Tobey: "The maze of negotiations, investments, loans and leases between these trusts and Textron presents a fantastic picture of fiscal manipulation," which gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations. Tobey's remedy: Congress should pass a law forcing all such trusts to pay out 85% of their annual gross income to beneficiaries, to get tax exemption...
Second is the "work of art" school, and its, members are those who cast accusations at the literary historians. They iso'..te a work from its context and appraise its intrinsic value. Frequently these crities throw up a maze of technical jargon which only dampens the student's enthusiasm. They do, however, give him the tools with which he may articulate his opinions-the basis for genuine appreciation...