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...referred to himself as "one" and did others a similar courtesy. He became subjunctive in his mood, conditional in his attitude and more professional in his vocabulary. Instead of "I think" he said, "One might contend." He began using the Latin abbreviations i.e., e.g., and viz. in his speech as well as his writing. By the beginning of his junior year he could use "be that as it may," "moreover," "albeit" and "to the contrary notwithstanding" without giving them a second thought...
...high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "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 baby?-No, I'd hit her with a brick...
Indiscriminately, as is our wont, presenting everything available with the generous assumption that you yourselves will choose the greatest and the wisest and the best among them, we list the following egregiously overrated films which we don't know why we bother to list them. Viz., At the Kenmore,they are showing a movie which someone thoughtfully went to the trouble of making from Arthur Miller's worst play, A View From the Bridge; who knows why (but don't get us wrong; we love Hollywood). At the Fenway (KE 6-0610),we would revert to our former mode...
...domestic factor, of comparative chronology (viz., times in past meets), the bookies, as the CRIMSON will tend to bet Bill Brooks' establishment. The Harvard 50, Eli 45--but of victory might well be points either...
...makes at least 15 concrete arms control proposals, that although they would hardly satisfy a missionary like Thomas nevertheless are more positive than Kahn's critics would readily admit, viz., peace-time surveillance teams, rejection of first of nuclaer weapons, qulitative bans on weapons testing...