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...Approval" is a typical vehicle for only occasionally clever lines. The play finds two couples testing their potential marriage compatibility by running off to a Scottish lodge for three weeks of living together. It proves a light and sometimes funny enterprise...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example. "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...sunrise, both the note and the coat-hangers had disappeared. The tombstone was taken away, leaving a mound of dirt to puzzle students. Rumors about a rampant Scottish Nationalist circulated about the Yard. No one guessed the real sentiment behind the "monument...
...universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty of the Lord's work and satisfied scientific inquiry...
...Brilliant Buccaneering." The dispute moved on. The T.U.C.'s Scottish branch canceled an invitation to Bevan to address their annual conference. A statement on behalf of 110,000 County Durham miners declared Bevan's resignation "unwarranted." Food Minister Maurice Webb echoed: "We really cannot have Mr. Bevan's brilliant kind of buccaneering." Hugh Gaitskell, in a speech at Glasgow, hit back openly at Bevan, called for a ceiling on welfare services until rearmament is achieved. He said he was convinced that raw materials shortages, one of Bevan's big talking points, would not defeat the arms...