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...present News Chairman defined a university as "a place where nothing is static, where that noblest of all intoxicating processes, intellectual ferment, takes place constantly. It is a place where men are taught how to think, to judge, and to be free--to be free to judge and think as they...
...ring and his theatrics are gone, but the traditions and rituals of Germany's "noblest" sport have survived. Last week, at the height of the Blattzeit (roe deer mating season), hundreds of hunters trod through West Germany's deer country. Few could afford Göring's "hoch" style of shooting, but those who could manage it wore the hunter's minimum dress-green knickers, brown or green suede jacket, cravat, stylish hat, rubber-soled stalking shoes...
...factor. Otherwise there would be terrifying truth in the meaningless gaucherie ("If Chambers is right in believing the major bulwark against Stalin to be faith in God, then it is time for men of conviction and courage to take to the hills") with which one reviewer writes off the noblest act of courage our generation is likely...
...show of Royal Academy masterpieces. Alongside the drawing-room elegance of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stubbs's picture of two grooms rubbing down the champion seemed as pleasantly direct and fresh as a breeze from green grass. Opined Daily Mail Critic Pierre Jeanneret: "The noblest picture of a horse ever done...
Some of Mr. Highet's contemporaries, a little more pessimistic than I, regard Caesar as the noblest of patriots because they see in the Roman republic of Caesar's day and in the American republic of today a hopeless corruption. Disgusted with the ignorant and brutal clowns who are today performing in all parts of the world, they hope that it will be our good fortune to have at last a master as intelligent, as cultivated and as clement as Caesar . . . The real Caesar was known only to Caesar, but it is the mark of the very greatest...