Word: oxonian
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...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...
...sense, Oxonian Morris Marples had noted, English university students were no different from thieves, gangsters, soldiers, sailors, tramps, showmen, costers, churchmen or lawyers. Whatever century they lived in, they were apt to speak a language all their...
Never before, as far as the oldest Old Oxonian could recall, had the University Congregation been convened during the "Long Vac." But last week, with almost a month of vacation still ahead, the Hebdomadal Council (Oxford's "cabinet") summoned a special session of Congregation (the academic legislature). To the black-gowned, curious dons, Dean John Lowe of Christ Church broke an exciting piece of news...
...once the letters column of the New Statesman bristled with arguments pro & con Freddie Ayer. Did his philosophy really lead to fascism? One professional philosophizer who sided with "Oxonian" was bush-bearded C.E.M. Joad. To accept Ayer's assumptions, wrote Joad, would be to agree "that there is no meaning in the universe . . . that it means nothing to say that Beethoven is a greater musician than Mr. Sinatra . . . that all talk about God ... is twaddle...
Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...