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...would have stirred audiences to a risibility from which he could not recover their attention. But, of course, the absence of wit does not necessarily betoken seriousness; it merely betokens the absence of wit. All Allen really had to avoid was farce. We could have accepted, as a logical outgrowth of his work to date, the rue and irony of a full-scale comedy of middle-class manners, a sympathetically satirical study of the lies by which many of us attempt to sustain life and sanity...
...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...
...Washington, D.C., attorney. They are, agrees Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish, masters of "a mysterious art form to which the layman is not privy, with mumbo jumbo going on." The heart of the art, of course, is the impenetrable language that lawyers use, sometimes at great length (a direct outgrowth of the English practice of paying lawyers by the word for their briefs, which were, as a result, rarely brief...
...seems unfair to judge socialism by the standards developed by capitalism to evaluate itself. Marx and Engels saw socialism as an outgrowth of capitalism. Initially, therefore, socialism cannot but manifest many of the characteristics, however undesirable, of the structures that gave it birth. It also seems unfair to judge the achievements of socialism so soon. It was to be only after several generations, the founders thought, that socialism would come into...
Discussions presently underway at Harvard on the core curriculum, for instance, are an outgrowth of Conant's seminal understanding of the need for a general education. The 1945 report "General Education in a Free Society," sponsored by Conant, led to the introduction of general education programs at Harvard and elsewhere...