Word: seriousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your case is indeed a serious one. No, I am afraid I cannot justify your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...
...found my first Dashiell Hammett book by accident. His writing comes in a form that most people don't expect to produce genius--the mystery. Books other than serious novels, it seems, don't "count" in people's minds; at least they aren't remembered and people, in their natural casual arrogance, think of the mystery as a second class literature...
Nonetheless, serious problems remain...
...fact that Dean Ford finds our action 'the most serious offense of its kind in my memory at Harvard' indicates . . . a general fear of SDS and other radical movements at Harvard," the resolution stated. "But we will continue to raise the political issues in fighting for the abolition of ROTC at Harvard," the statement added...
Putnam defended the use of militant tactics on behalf of moral causes. "As a philosopher, I do get depressed about the moral relativism that our colleagues in Social Sciences see fit to embrace," he said. "The idea that on a serious moral issue on which people disagree, neither side can claim the truth seems to me an intolerable position," Putnam added. "What people have, they have because they fought," he said...