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...search of poetic recognition. Unless they have the integrity, the ruthlessness, and the certified characteristics of a real muse, they will get entangled with pseudo poets. The outcome is always sad, often sordid. Cunning pseudo poets ruthlessly exploit a pseudo muse's innocent ambitions. The ancient Irish triad is as true today as ever...
...narrow margin of 179-177) to admission of Red China into the U.N. (gingerly favored) to anti-Semitism (bitterly condemned). But the clearest expression of the Council's mind came in the three major reports on 1) Christian Service, 2) Witness, and 3) Unity. In this triad of messages, the Council reflected both its actuality as a going, growing concern, and the difficulties still to be faced in giving the right weight to beliefs so different as those of Greek Orthodox Metropolitans and Pentecostal missionaries from South America...
...meet the needs of these three elements, Walker proposes a triad organization consisting of the football band, a concert band, and a new group to be called the wind ensemble. The football band is largest of the three groups, and the one most generally known. Its standards of admission are not uncommonly high; the main idea is to get a lot of people out on the field, particularly brass players. The concert band is a cut-down version of the football band. Better balanced among woodwind, brass, and percussion, it plays considerably more than the football medleys and Harvard songs...
...anti-jockism at Harvard is as bad as anti-intellectualism; neither type of personality under attack really exists per se at Harvard, and there is no reason why a varsity athlete can't dispel the erroneous triad of stero-types by joining a final club and getting A's. To those who ask "What the hell are you doing down at that wet, muddy field with a bunch of robot-animals when you could be expanding your knowledge by reading or studying?" the athlete can reply "Accumulating a college experience" with as much validity and pride as a member...
...deeper" than the movie) The Mouse tells the story of how Grand Fenwick--its economy threatened by an imitation American wine that drives its own product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played skillfully by Peter Sellers...