Word: precious
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Britain and the U.S. were urged last week to join in a massive drive to export one of their most precious natural resources : the English language. As a "truly universal language," said Sir David Eccles, Britain's Minister of Education, English could become "a great instrument for the creation of one world...
...question most asked was, Is there any hope for humanity?' I very dutifully said 'yes-'" Golding's credentials for being asked such a monumental query-and for answering it-rest on one accomplishment: his Lord of the Flies, a grim parable that holds out precious little hope for humanity, and is the most influential novel among U.S. undergraduates since Salinger's Catcher...
Clearly, something is out of . Three factors seem to enticements to graduate study: struggle, the College's scholasticism, and--perhaps important and certainly the -- the iconoclastic, disrespectful attitude of the body. This state of surely a most precious part of the Harvard experience, but its consequences for life in the outside world painful to endure...
...climate in which the lives and thrives at may be the factor that militates against satisfaction in . Harvard's absolute freedom , thought, and action is for at once a weighty and a precious, irretrievable
Thurgus the Turgid. Nabokov, of course, does this sort of turn spectacularly well. Solemnly the lardwit betrays himself, reporting that Shade's friendship "was the more precious for its tenderness being intentionally concealed." But as the reader reads Kinbote's line-by-line commentary on the poem, he sees that the annotator is afflicted with something more than boobery. Sanely or not, Kinbote has it firmly in his head that he is the deposed king of "a distant northern land" called Zembla, and that he was known to his adoring subjects as Charles the Beloved, son of Alfin...