Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...say that "isolated facts, true in themselves'' are not necessarily the truth. Agreed. We believe that isolated facts are far from enough; we are very much committed to amassing the facts and, if we can, isolating the truth. "Truth," you say, "is wholeness, balance and harmony." These are three good words, and we work by them...
...been unable to score a single point in its three contests. Dartmouth crushed the team, 11 to 0, Princeton, 9 to 0, and last week New York beat them unmercifully, 18 to 0. Of course, one cannot tell a great deal from comparative scores, but it seems reasonable to say that they certainly will not be the toughest oposition the Crimson has faced...
...those of a more didactic, or purely symbolic nature tend to fall flat. Mr. Phelps also has a tendency to use slight inaccuracies in syntax, under the impression that they are eminently subtle and thus convey a nuance which could not be obtained any other way. Needless to say, the subtlety remains in the poet's mind, somewhat beyond the reach of the reader, and so phrases such as "the chairs obliquely ignore each other" annoy rather than enlighten...
...Whereas residents consume valuable dormitory space, commuters are a kind of "super-cargo," and in the face of tougher and tougher competition, the local boy will find it increasingly easier to gain admission to Harvard as a commuter than, say, to Yale as a resident. More and more, he will have to choose between "living in" at a less than first rate college, or living with his family and attending Harvard...
...textual piracies pave the way for his ideological sneakiness. Terrified to read our articles closely enough to see what they say and how they say it, Mr. A. is a moral as well as an aesthetic coward. Dogmatically he extracts a sentence from an article--rather than troubling to restate the argument of the article in his own terms. Then he sneers. A few steps in the critical process seem to have been left out or aped...