Word: scottishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lenin had made some remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
...Knights Templar, highest order within the Masonic York Rite, make use of the New Testament in their ritual. Other orders, within both the York and Scottish Rites, base their ritual on the Old Testament, affirm the existence of a Supreme Being, neither affirm nor deny the divinity of Jesus Christ...
...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...
Peter W. Rand '51 of Eliot House dropped a message-laden bottle overboard last summer while on a cruise in the Arctic Ocean, and it turned up April 22 on a Scottish beach. Rand received the message and a letter last week from the finder--John MacIntyre of South Uist, Lochboisdale, in the Outer Hebrides...
...been killed by a death-ray flash-light, he is left on the stage to talk by himself for a good three minutes. A good deal, eh? But now get this--in the first scene the Gardener is an Italian, in the next he has an Irish brogue, then Scottish, then Russian, and, finally--for his last speech he is the Wandering Jew! (Where...