Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poetry room, he has assembled a thousand-reel tape collection of recordings by contemporary poets, including rare readings by Wallace Stevens. "Sweeney is the sort of man for whom Stevens would overcome his reluctance to record," one colleague said. "With his charm and intelligence, he is a person Stevens could trust...
...spend on behalf of any candidate. The law also restricts the total amount which can be spent on any campaign. But these regulations can easily be circumvented and have been in many instances. They do not, for example, place the burden of responsibility for campaign expenditures on any particular person. The regulation on the candidate's spending does not prevent the prospective Senator from shoveling excess funds to his State Committee or to a special group to be used on his behalf...
...learn from men of other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...
...Hall Syndicate, though many another syndicate had considered and rejected it as too controversial to handle. Apparently, the hero is a minister simply for the sake of credibility in presenting spiritually centered man "against the heavy materialistic stress of modern life," explains the syndicate. "Only in such a person, motivated by moral rather than financial considerations, could faith triumph...
...anonymous person tried to continue the revolt after the committee report criticizing the seniors. But his efforts failed, despite his assertion that "we must have some indulgence for Mr. Adams' humor. The mortifications and disappointments of his life have soured the old man's temper--and he must needs disgorge his venom...