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...walk than from any other thing except his speech. An instructive case in point is Alec Guinness' performance in Bridge on the River Kwai. Guinness must have employed at least two dozen different walks for this role, and he was thereby able to convey even without a word, the subtlest changes of condition or attitude...
...well as for the sake of affectionate memory and inconsolable grief, let me ask you that his name be recorded, and with it my conviction that his tragically early death in January of 1942 deprived not only the Harvard community but the scholarly world of one of the subtlest, most gracious minds in the area of study. Perry Miller, Professor of American Literature...
...Senate; then he set up regular sessions with the Senate parliamentarian to study the precedents. As the years rolled on, Dick Russell became such a master of Senate procedure that Illinois' Paul Douglas once said: "I yield, though my knees are knocking, to one of the subtlest men and one of the most able field generals who ever appeared on the floor of the Senate...
...pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings," but far more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft and vision, he evaded the fate Scott Fitzgerald had in mind when he wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. James's last novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove...
Etymological quibbling, such as the Rev. Mr. Wolfe seems addicted to, is a dangerous and unlovely habit. Indiscriminately indulged in, it can lead us away from the truth as effectively as the subtlest sophistry. One cannot always tell the flowers by the roots . . . Take the word Presbyterian itself (from Greek presbyteros, comparative of presbys, old). It would seem to mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good...