Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still a power to be feared. Some members of the opposition went into hiding, fearful that Thieu would use the palace bombing as an excuse to imprison more opponents of the regime. The major problem that the opposition faces is the lack of a likely successor. Although his remark was self-serving, Thieu's cousin Nha was probably correct last week when he smugly observed: "Do you see anyone else around...
Ford said no nation should double American "determination to maintain a defense that is second to none." And raising his voice, he declared: "We are strong and we are ready and we intend to remain so." The remark drew a short round of applause from legislators
...stands as an important work in the field of English criticism. Where his appointment to the chair was announced, the Harvard Alumni magazine hailed him as a great poet who WA "original with the only originality that counts, that which has a profound conservative basis..." Eliot makes an interesting remark in his 1964 preface to the published lectures. Of his earlier essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," continually applauded and sometimes used as propaganda by conservative English departments trying to dictate classical educations, he says it was "perhaps the most juvenile." Harry Levi '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature...
...frequent digressions, Kawabata seems to remark on his own structural style...
...McWhirters' literary knowledge may be a little shaky, too. "Some authors such as James Joyce eschew punctuation altogether," they remark in the section on "Longest Sentence." And yet their own style has a charm all its own, a stern, Old-World censoriousness of tone that begins with the Guinness Book's first page, a starkly understated discussion of the sizes and careers of various giants, and proceeds through recurring lamentations on the varieties of human duplicity. For example, the McWhirters say. "No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity...