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...truism of Harvard basketball that the freshman teams are almost as strong as the varsities are weak. The 1954 freshman squad hardly seems to be an exception...
...issue is not the qualifications of the individual concerned. I reach the point merely to clarify a misconception you have fostered in the minds of your readers. Another misconception you advance relates to the degree of innuendo that could be imparted to a Note by a single writer. The truism you mouth, that "mere academic success entitles him to neither a forum for ideology or an instrument for hidden purposes" successfully skirts a disclosure of the technique by which the Review Notes are composed, thus denying your readers an unassisted evaluation of the risk of harm created. The Notes...
...showers of April annually bring the flowers of May is an ancient truism. Even the rugs of many a Yardling will be sprouting, if it comes true. As is usual, the spring crop of water pistols, rather than Jupiter Pluvius, is spraying the area both indoors and out, but mainly...
...rationale behind the "graph for all occasions" is quite simple. In recent years it has become almost a truism that a graph is one of the easiest ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits...
...they secretly want - something solid to disbelieve in. Peter Cowley's faith is unshaken. Modern man, he concludes, knows too much for his own good. Too sophisticated for miracles, he must find his way to grace through such hoary maxims as "Love one another." To give that wan truism the flush of a bold truth, Novelist Buechner's drawing-room tragedy would have to glow with forthright eloquence; it shimmers with frosty, neo-Jamesian elegance instead...