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...motor boat made its way up the Charles, its skipper oblivious to the racing shells around it, is a moot point. But after being called every foul name imaginable by fans and the rowers returning to their docks from the finish of the lightweight eight race (which St. Catharine's Rowing Club of Canada won with an unofficial time of 15:23.1), the skipper of the pleasure boat threw a line to a passing kayaker, who then towed the boat out of the racing lane...
...whole point probably is moot anyway, since photography solved much of Wordsworth's and Hawthorne's problem, and television may be the Final Solution for our newspaper nattering. Ellen Hume '68 Kennedy Institute Fellow...
Some admissions officials, such as Rosemary Green, assistant director of admissions, believe Klitgaard's preliminary study is essentially a moot topic. "It's not an issue at this point. We dealt with it as far as we're concerned, and it's not begin discussed now," Green says...
Whether Sandra O'Connor is, or is not, an advocate of the ERA is a moot point. Her nomination to the Supreme Court verifies that the ERA is unnecessary...
Whether this point is worth making over and over again, at such length and great expense to collectors, seems moot-though not to Cowart, who detects in Lichtenstein's ability to apply his method an almost Picasso-like energy. "Tomorrow he could take Renaissance, Classical or other known subjects or, on the other hand, quickly invent a new vocabulary of images," Cowart writes in the catalogue. Perhaps, but would it matter? What one misses in a large proportion of the work on view in St. Louis is, simply, the sense of necessity-an engagement deeper than style...