Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills are given to the Commission, they will be incorporated into its report on the general question of Communist infiltration to be made to the State Legislature on May 1. It will only list specific instances of infiltration, and will not recommend the passage of any particular bills...
...superstitious Burma, where heavenly portents are eagerly watched for, a visiting 67-man good-will cultural mission from Red China paid a call on the Rangoon Zoo. Anxious to impress the mission with the atmosphere of peaceful coexistence that pervades his particular domain, the zoo keeper thrust his arm into the cage of his gentlest lion. The lion promptly bit the intruding hand, and was driven off only by shots from the security police...
When Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, a book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...
...good hangman must not only have a sharp eye and a clever touch; he must have personality and good stage presence, must feel at home with any class of people, and should be "capable of being the guide, philosopher and friend of whomsoever he must hang for us." In particular, Duff sings the praises of 19th century Hangman James Berry, who calculated precisely the length of rope needed to break the prisoner's neck with pulling the head off. Berry expressed this in a brilliant and still widely used equation which, at least in Author Duff's version...
...down to Massachusetts legislators in pursuit of the big column five story that will startle the University the next morning. Editorial entrants will spend their time relaxing in local movie houses or pouring over faded newspaper volumes for editorial feature material. Potential music reviewers and art critics are in particular demand...