Word: transcendental
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The plot has an immense sallowness, exceeded only by the banality of much of the dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning...
Commented the Washington Post: "One of the troubles with Government news handouts, necessary as they often may be, is that they tend to discourage original reporting and newsgathering enterprise . . . No one can quarrel with the Pentagon that on news of 'transcendent importance' there should be simultaneous release to...
It was fought and won on transcendent issues of morality: 1) clean government, 2) government for all the people and not for special groups, and 3) government that would express in foreign and domestic policy the moral beliefs that lie at the root of U.S. life and greatness.
Reporting that game, the New York Times's Allison Danzig called Kazmaier's performance "one of the greatest passing exhibitions ever seen on any gridiron since the introduction of the pass in 1906." The Herald Tribune decided that "Princeton's all-around operations on offense and defense...
Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio...