Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...say my loyalties are very definitely with Yale," Whiting comments. "I'm with Harvard up to the Yale game, but then..." He hastens to add, however, his opinion that "Harvard is going to cream Yale this year...
Rossini was at the height of his powers when he wrote Ory. Frankly, I am not an ardent admirer of Rossini; and this work shows many of his weaknesses, such as poverty-stricken harmony and overly square phraseology. The libretto is scarcely more than adequate--Rossini himself used to say he needed nothing better than a laundry list...
...Beecher's article under the heading "Brass Tacks: Pakistan Palaver," published in the Harvard CRIMSON of November 12, is a remarkable performance. He appears merely to have gathered up bits of information many of which are, to say the least inaccurate. His conclusions are drawn from what are, on closer examination very slim premises...
...advantages of man's mastery of space, Huxley has this to say: "All our exuberant post-Sputnik talk is irrelevant and even nonsensical. So far as the masses of mankind are concerned, the coming time will not be the Space Age; it will be the Age of Over-population." In a parody of the old song, Huxley asks...
...might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...