Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moon and Middle America" [Aug. 1] and your statement: "He chatted on and on with somewhat feeble witticisms . . . its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished...
...letting his cousin, Joe Gargan, "take the rap," If that is Dinis' purpose, there is an easier way to go about it than an inquest. Dinis could charge Kennedy and all his associates that night, both partygoers and advisers after the tragedy, with "conspiracy to present a false statement." Such a charge requires a grand jury, and the grand jury could summon anyone who is not a lawyer to tell the court everything that Ted had told them...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various method whereby the crafty student attempts to show than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. It is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...bitterness assaults a superfine intelligence too long, it will cause either impenetrable cynicism or childlike idealism too devout for despair. And it is at this point that we must speak of Mahler's religion, bearing in mind his statement tat "there is always the danger of an exuberance of words in such infinitely delicate and unrational matters." His religion seems to have issued from a vivifying fusion of the Christian mystery of redemption and German transcendentalism. Mahler must have felt like D.H. Lawrence, who said, "Give me mystery and let the world live again for me." His religion...
...therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classic and a romantic, but then, so may Dryden, depending on your point of view...In some respects, this statement is unquestionable true, but in other..."On through the night...