Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAKE ME ALONG is Bob Merrill's musical version of the Eugene O'Neill classic, Ah, Wilderness!, which focuses on the problems of a Connecticut family at the turn of the century. It will be staged at Boiling Springs...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU has been proven over and over again, but this time the Kaufman and Hart comedy about a zany family will delight visitors to the Pennsylvania State Festival Theater, University Park...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take a typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical conclusion." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age he lived in?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with, "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. It this be the spirit of the age he lived in, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or what...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent age he lived in?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher, because his thoughts was merely a reflection of conditions around him colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the grounds that his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse...
Arts And Letters won the one hundredth running of the Travers Stakes by himself. He beat Claibvorne Farm's Dike, the second finisher, by six and a half lengths. The weight handicappers could take little solace in the fact. In the Belmont at a mile and a half Dike had been beaten seven and a half lengths by the Rokeby colt. Saturday's test was two fulongs shorter and Arts and Letters gave his nearest rival six pounds in the weights...