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...little too easy to speak of literary art transcending genre Hamlet remains a revenge play, the greatest novel in English begins and ends as an American sea story, and transcendence is only a poor and pompous synonym for quality. Ross MacDonald has taken from the great tradition of crime fiction as much as he has given to it. He has enriched and expanded this tradition, but he has never abandoned or violated it. Like so many of the best American authors, he has produced a body of work in a genre style which meets the most severe standards of substance...
...Exchange reopened following the holiday and prices shot upwards on word of the victory. Baruch was proud to have been a speculator, but he cringed at the implications the term came to carry. "Modern usage," he noted in a 1957 autobiography, "has made the term 'speculator' a synonym for gambler and plunger. Actually the word comes from the Latin speculari, which means to spy out and observe. I have defined a speculator as a man who observes the future and acts before it occurs...
...sign those glib and predictable letters to the Times, including the one during the recent Israeli crisis when so many of these cause-happy activists leapt to the telephone and their pens. The same principle applies to the Viet Nam war, the very name of which has become a synonym for left-wing sanctimony...
...President might have cooled it with the phrase had he known that, to some hippies, Fat City is a synonym for Squaresville...
...class-unless the statistics include "amateur" tennis players who get $9,000 a year from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association for playing on the Davis Cup team, or the track stars who compete for phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley...