Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon is particular about his shop hours; he doesn't like to unlock before noon. "There isn't much happening around here in the morning. I used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens...
...that you can't make a silk purse out of a bulldog's ear. It will not possibly do to have Yalies parading around in coats and ties when they would prefer to wear a tee shirt and sweat pants, or perhaps a swimming suit. While we have no particular objection to giving top hats to Zulus, we see no necessity...
...fifteen straight days George S. Abrams '54, former managing editor of the CRIMSON, and two other American students at the Festival talked to crowds of up to 5,000 in Moscow's Red Square. They addressed interested Russians on the aims and ideals of the West and, in particular, read to them the U.N. report on Hungary which scathingly denounced Russia's actions in putting down the revolution there...
King was no preacher, nor did he pretend to any particular piety-at least not until he fell in love with Henrietta Chamberlain, the Presbyterian minister's daughter he finally married. He was not exactly a fugitive from justice, but at eleven he had run away from New York City where his Irish immigrant parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest...
...Goethe, have "Abundance, Amplitude and Unity." By abundance. Eliot means that (unlike T. S. Eliot) "they all wrote a good deal." By amplitude, he means that "each had a very wide range of interest, sympathy and understanding." As for unity, "it is Life itself, the World seen from a particular point of view...