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...proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity, while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature to be a teetotaler, to dress in all the sincerity of rough Jaeger woolens...
...threshold of a fascinating argument: "The Mechanistic philosophy is as much a myth as the story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman, on the other hand, tries to make the point that "men are interrelated analogically." But he does so in analytic terms which...
...British are brave super and noble cheers cheers cheers. The only way for Peace is for all of them to dive into the sea and end it all." But he is at his best as a tactician in his own local revolution against the masters. Molesworth is succinct in a guide to "Kanes I Have Known" (e.g., "The 'Nonpliant...
...mannerisms. His Harvard career was interrupted by a hitch in the seagoing Army Transport Service. Soon after graduation (class of '49), Dave was installed as president of Schine Hotels, Inc., although his father kept tight control of the operations. Dave distinguished himself by writing a remarkably succinct pamphlet, Definition of Communism, and father Schine saw to it that copies were as prominent in Schine hotel rooms as the Gideon Bible...
...clever ideas. The fact that a work is a transcription need not condemn it, however; and the two performed by the Quintet proved to be first Yale. The opening Haydn Divertimento in B flat was especially pleasing. Each of its four short movements is a gem, developing is a succinct and translucent manner a very few musical ideas. It is in this work that Haydn uses the Chorale St. Antoni which was to become the theme of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn...