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...absurdity. In point of fact, it may be concluded that the entire concatenation of events is far more indicative of the "unspoken" than many of our very intelligent, illustrious colleagues, male and female, would care to allow. A number of very important issues have been raised by this "peculiar and very petty squabble"--issues which in no way have been resolved, and which, paradoxically enough, have yet to be recognized and articulated...
Though not surprising, it would be sad if Harvard continued to mistake Brown-Beasley's peculiar manner--his profuse letter-writing, his occasional self-righteousness and his inordinate suspicion--as reasons to treat his charges lightly. On procedural grounds Brown-Beasley has a strong case against Harvard, and beyond this there remain the serious substantive allegations he has made about the operation of the Office of Fiscal Services and, more generally, the application of computers at Harvard. Apples, oranges and bananas aside, there's more to the Brown-Beasley controversy than fruit cocktai
...places himself outside of the movement of modern poets who adopted causes of philosophies out of a need for an external impulse that would take their work beyond simply personal experience, yet both he and his contemporaries have been characterized by a particular social consciousness inspired by the issues peculiar to their age. Whereas the previous generation of poets chronicled the collapse of an older Europe, Spender reacted through his work to the growing problems of the 1930's: economic crisis, unemployment, nascent Fascism and the coming...
...screens. Phrases like "At this point in time," and "What did he know and when did he know it?" as well as appointment logs and White House organization charts became the lifeblood of political conversations. The really knowledgeable viewers knew not only the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names of the staff lawyers, Sam Dash and Rufus Edmisten for the Democrats, Fred Thompson for the Republicans. The summer's game was guessing the revelations the staff members were hiding behind their green covered...
...most of the ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed evidence supporting Hauptmann's alibi that he was at work as a carpenter throughout the day of the kidnaping. Once the spectacular trial was under way, Scaduto says, a number of witnesses distorted the evidence "for their own peculiar motives." Haupt-mann's widow Anna, now 78, added a melancholy judgment of her own: "I know my Richard couldn't do such a thing...