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Sixpence per Line. With intimates, Thackeray's conversation was "decidedly loose" (lost forever, presumably, is the remainder of his limerick about "...the Countess Guiccioli Who slept with Lord Byron habitually"). He enjoyed going to pubs, or, as one enemy described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving...
...state must come from a law higher than itself. "It is clearly not the destiny of the secular state to render the functions of a religious community superfluous. On the contrary, with the advance of a technical civilization, a church in our broad sense . . . instead of tending to wither away, becomes increasingly necessary...
...camp tagged him "clerk-typist" and thought no more about him. Then last fortnight Shult's old professor, Geneticist Carl C. Lindegren, let out a blast. The private, said the professor, "is the outstanding mathematical genius I have encountered in 30 years," and the Army was "letting him wither on the vine...
There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that, in the semi-Marxist Welfare State, it is the people who wither away...