Word: viz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citing gospel tunes such as I Need Thee Every Hour and Blessed Assurance with the blissful assurance that they are out of date and hard to sing, this musical ragamuffin exhibits the familiar technique of the collectivist revolutionists, viz., to state a false proposition as if it were a long-accepted fact. Persons like this Wiant are not competent to sense the enduring sincerity of the very gospel songs they presume to judge...
...seems strange to have an Irish name at the top of such a conglomerate of races. Might I suggest a new name for the "infant," viz. the "QUINN-qua-gesima" state...
...Pakistani gentleman pointed out the other day in a London daily, the so-called revolution in Pakistan is nothing but a shift of power from one part of the landed aristocracy to another, viz. the army, whose top officers are members of this landed aristocracy. The coming of the February elections, already postponed from year to year, threatened to turn over power to the representatives of the common class, who would necessarily be from the middle class. This would have, of course, led to much-needed land reforms--the anathema of the big feudal landlords--further reducing their power...
...strong medical evidence to the contrary. An exhaustive study by three doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health two years ago seemed to prove that the physiological effects of the training meal were negligible. The only consolation offered to old-school devotees was the possibility of psychological benefits--viz. "the sense of security generally attainable by the practice of rituals" or ego-building derived from "eating red meat as a symbol of manly vigor...
...bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child?-No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" Cummings is still hitting his readers with bricks-but also with the flowers and the fancies of a unique lyricism. crazy jay blue) demon laughshrieking at me your scorn of easily...