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Enough for kinship. The real question is "Which came first" and "Who is copying who?" Snap judgement might give the tree seniority. But one must not overlook the fact that a strong line of "beard" ancestry is that of Commander Whitehead, who may have fallen on ignoble days, but whose blood, nonetheless, flows back through the history of England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece...
...Rational? To get the first students in the proper mood, Bond sent each six books to read-Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture, Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, and Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine...
...their parts and to forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron Follett, as the excitable, Gigi-like Laurel, had a part which could easily have been overplayed, but she handled it very well. O. Z. Whitehead was stiff at first but afterwards quite engaging as the butler. Only Frances Ingalls, as Laurel's young mother, was much too unsure of herself and marred an otherwise admirable production...
...inaccuracies are disturbingly frequent; the lead article talks about "casting aspirations on"; Sir Hamilton Gibb is mistakenly called a spring term appointment; Alfred North Whitehead was not a University Professor. For the fourth successive year, the ski team's lack of distinction is blamed on lack of snow, despite the fact that there was a record fall this year. The book's polls are almost useless. Only three of them add up to 100% of those polled. One amounts to 121%, one to 97%, two to 96%; one each to 95%, 94%, 93%, 92%, and 91%. In response...
Buckley agreed with Wechsler on this point, but said that quality, not quantity of readership, is the true criterion of an author's impact. "Drew Pearson certainly has more readers than Alfred North Whitehead ever had, but who will say Pearson has more effect on our society...