Word: pelion
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...field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk's History of the Westward Movement--by all odds the outstanding American history course offered in the College...
...keeping-burlesque in barracks required a musicomedy plot too complicated to explain and too silly to bother about, Lindsay & Crouse never stopped to worry. They tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...
...Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable. The Pindus Mountains in Albania and northern Greece are considerably higher (they include Mt. Olympus, 9,730 ft., with Ossa and Pelion handy for climbing) but much easier to traverse with an army. There are actually two or three roads through them...
...received little attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion of lack-lustre emotion and getting, as the Giants in the legend did, exactly nowhere...
...faculty should consider the subjects that can be covered in undergraduate work, rather than increase the years in law school from three to four. For while an extra year would give time for worthwhile special study, the rank and file of men should not be compelled to pile Pelion on Ossa in an already burdensome education...