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This, of course, is much the most logical solution to the age problem. But it will take more than perfect logic to convince the private schools to give up their boys a year earlier; they have a vested interest, backed by all the weight of tradition, in that seventeenth year, and will not quickly give...
...curtain and very pretty and accurate the scene, which did please me much. And it did go very swift and I did soon lose myself in seventeenth century most completely. Indeed, I did imagine many musketeers in the audience and the lady aside me was now dressed in many silks and lace and airs; but the lord still did seem a mean looker. And I was glad at my heart to see Sir Pepys (bless our souls!) who doth see the show for the first time and did laugh much at the lines...
...expert can recognize the characteristics of a certain painter, and thus we can, for instance, determine whether or not Rembrandt painted a picture in the middle seventeenth century, or whether it was painted by one of his pupils...
...hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with the professor's remarks that the seventeenth century shows that change may be coincident with progress; and that is one of the most important revolutions in history. But this was my dream...
Traffic halted on Fifth Avenue, sleepy heads appeared from swank hotel windows as the peacock soared thrice around the gilded rooster atop the Heckscher Building, then to a window ledge on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Plaza. There, as raucous cries arose from the Central Park Bird Sanctuary, he took off again, landing finally in the sanctuary beside four squawking peahens which had been widowed fortnight before...