Word: remarkable
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...offense against the gods, whose property men were. But the Stoics and Epicureans, taking man as the measure of all things, condoned self-destruction as a blessed escape. Said Seneca: "Against all the injuries of life, I have the refuge of death." As Nietzsche was later to remark more pithily: "The thought of suicide gets one successfully through many a bad night...
...were concise, tightly reasoned point-by-point capsule analyses. But his passion for exhausting the possibility of every idea sometimes carried his logic further than he meant to go on the record. And at these points, one of his aides would remind the secretary that if he let the remark stand he would be quoted in such a way on this or that issue; and the secretary would regretfully take it off the record. After one of these reminders, McNamara grinned broadly at the reporters and said, "Oh, now they wouldn't publish that any way, would they?" They didn...
...campaign moves from one stump to the next. He has turned up some of the best issues of the campaign, including the embarrassing facts about O'Connor's anti-rent control stand in the state legislature in the early '50's and another anti-rent control remark quoted in "The Real Estate Weekly" this May. There are 1.5 million people in rent-controlled apartments in the City, making this a serious charge...
Lesley girls have their own false stereotype about Harvard men as the remark about "sophisticated" Harvard Yard indicates. There are two types of Harvard men, Jo Anne said with the smiling assent of the others. Either he's a clean-cut, with a black umbrella and a scarf (in a word, "preppie"), or he hasn't had a bath since September and he smells like...
...Dennis suggests with his bleakly sardonic view of the human race, of madmen and brutes. He is interrogated as a spy, but his unabashed cowardice confounds the military. The enemy colonel, a man of some humor, decides to let him stay in his greenhouse-with the remark that if all his countrymen were like that, the war would be over very soon. The greenhouse thus becomes a "glass house," British soldiers' slang for a military prison. But it is a greenhouse to the prisoner. In civil life he had been a noted amateur gardener. Deftly, he sets about restoring...