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...cardinals: "Really I just wanted an excuse to use those colors, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple color without getting into a sort of false fauve manner." The fact that cardinals do not wear robes-or faces-that kind of purple troubles him not a whit...
...existence, too, has its adversities. When we saw that Claus could come down chimneys fully laden without even soiling his trousers (his manner of re-ascent has never been completely explored), and that, after visiting sancta where male feet never tread, he could continue his rounds not a whit diminished in vigor, we began to think of him as indomitable, as a sort of chubby, venerable Superman...
...started with oak leaves and used the same process you'd ordinarily use for spinach," Walcott explained yesterday, "and boiled the leaves for two minutes before freezing. But the catepillars had to be coaxed to eat them and didn't grow a whit, so we added vitamins and got better results...
...Harvard will not altogether abolish these courses, as it ought to do, does it not impose its own restrictions upon the number of students enrolling in them? And why does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting to inculcate them with values which are completely antiethical to those which Harvard tries to impart...
Today, at 52, Beverley is soberer, but no whit less naive, than when he wrote Twenty-Five. Most of All I Could Never Be is far too simple and sorry to stir up any ruckuses; the rest of it is first-rate gossip. The only ax it has to grind is Beverley himself...