Word: sic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society is open to all former disgruntled, embittered, and exhausted physics majors who have changed fields. "The Society is divided into several grades of membership, based on the purity and merit of their (sic) new major," according to the manifesto...
Four or six members of the Oxford Tiddlywinks Society (All England champions and holders of the Prince Philip Interuniversity Trophy) are planning a tour of the States from July to September 1961 (sic). We are keen to accept any challenges from your side of the Ttlantic and particularly like to play a series against the Ivy League. Any help or publicity you can give us would be much appreciated. Yours faithfully, Elizabeth King (Hon. Sec. O.U.T.S.) St. Hugh's College, Oxford
Most education is subjective: to meet and know the other students, says Miss Sayre. These seem to consist of "the worthies, or the neat ankles," who lead blameless, well-groomed lives and exude "beige-colored righteousness"; and girls like Miss Sayre's friends, "fantasists" (sic) who seek "elaborations in dress, emotions, and language...
...Sappho are routine, and the randy-romantic Villon ploddingly pedestrian ("Oh where is last year's snow?"). The quiet golden glow of Leopardi's L'infinito, one of the supreme sonnets in all literature, is messily extinguished; the wild-strawberry innocence of Hebel's Sic Transit acquires a chemical tang of quick-frozen fruitiness; and the fine dandiacal glitter of the Baudelaires is spotted with phraseological mudballs-"this obscene beast," for instance, is scarcely a felicitous rendition of "ce monstre délicat...
...editors tip their hand on the very first page. "The contemporary equivalent of Mein Kampf," they tell us, "is contained in the millions of words uttered in almost every latitude and longitude (sic) by the leader of the world communist movement. From this flow of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and epithets (not to mention adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) there emerges a Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who considers himself the most powerful man on earth. ... He makes no secret of his desire to rule the world. ... Conquest is the central theme of all he says, the objective of everything he does." Thus, Mager...