Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps Santa ought to be left alone for a while, like a Passion Play one takes out of mothballs only every ten years or so. In the meantime, we can make do with Christmas trees and holly, turkeys, cranberry sauce and mistletoe (which is, thank goodness, only a plant). Then...
Although the pinball machines attract considerable attention, local restaurant owners discount the effect their removal would have. "The pinball machines form a small percentage of our business," stated Henry Baumann, owner of Elsie's. "The boys use them to relax. They are the ones who would complain if the machines...
But is this a suitable way to approach the problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary...
But partisan controversy IS unbecoming as Professors Elliott and Leach remind us. Have they not, however, mistaken the root of the problem? The difficulty is not that we award our honors to the living, but that we announce the awards. Let us continue to sort the great from the near...
After years of an English acceptance of the Germans as a darkly brooding people, this Lichtenberg collection comes as an enlightening influence. Let this fact be no determining factor, however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What...