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...protest is still there. But it is stated in poetic rather than in "proletarian" terms. Shahn still draws for two hours every morning ("like doing finger exercises"), and the liveliness of his draftsmanship keeps even the vaguest of his new works from seeming too diffuse...
...Melbourne became Britain's vaguest, strangest Prime Minister. Years later, even his old friends in the Cabinet were shocked when, after at last reaching agreement on the price of bread, they heard their Premier calling after them down the stairs: "Stop a bit! What did we decide? Is it to lower the price . . . or isn't it? It doesn't matter which, but we must all say the same thing...
...about what it all meant, but were won over by the massive orchestration, applauded for five minutes. A mountain-climbing enthusiast approved: "On the top of a mountain, you get exactly the same feeling. If he can get that over, he's terrific." Old Composer Vaughan Williams was vaguest of all about the performance: his hearing aid broke down early in the concert...
...figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter: "Why don't you? You're High Commissioner, aren't you?" Templer said quietly: "You sit down. You sit down, or get out." The Communist sat down...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, 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 in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...