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...must leave emotivism and its more pallid linguistic legatees behind," Blanshard said. A rational defense of a way of life lies in showing that it produces more good than the alternative. Yet, reason without enjoyment is valueless...
...region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave. -Report to Congress...
...many a critic, it appeared that Des Moines's Dwight was not far off; the television reporter-critics have precious little influence. The quiz shows themselves are a case in point. For years, the nation's TV critics flayed the quiz programs as phony, valueless, and taste-degrading entertainment ("Immoral!" cried Jack Gould of the New York Times). But aside from an occasional dark hint, the television newsmen notably failed to expose the rash of fixing that had been taking place under their uplifted noses. They were thus left with the meager consolation that their abstract judgment...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work was commercially valueless; the seed was too expensive. Not till 1935, after further discoveries by U.S. Department of Agriculture Researcher Donald Jones and commercial seedsmen, such as Henry A. Wallace, onetime (1933-40) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, could commercial seed companies put hybrid corn on the market...
...just hadn't the feel of the thing, the sense of balance, the common sense that millions have of how it works. My opinion is what it always was, that the immense mass of his published work is practically valueless...