Word: worth
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Even the mediocre and the downright bad is worth reading, if it can be used with the faculties awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
None of these notions are unique with Trilling. They are indeed the conservative beliefs which we have today transcended. He believes that discipline is a good thing, that memorizing poetry is worth the pain, that the cult of ignorance is lamentable, that heroism is better than democratic ineptitude and conformity, that good and evil are distinct and that the difference is all-important, all classic notions which make him a little peculiar. He has no patience with the attempt of modern critics to pour everything into the artistic crucible and bring forth an indistinguishable and impalpable whole called "life." Unlike...
...consolation round of the Beanpot Tourney, which starts at 7 p.m. in the Garden, should be a very easy victory for the varsity hockey team. Yet the game will also be worth watching if the sextet decides to display the offensive power it discovered last weekend against Brown...
Although Adlai Stevenson's recent complaint of the effect of mass media on the American electorate during the past Presidential campaign has a tinge of sour grapes to it, it is worth studying. He fears that television and radio exert an unhealthy influence on American thinking, in that they tend to reduce the People to a mass, prone to the fallacies of a collective mind...
...Worth Doing ... In Gary, N.C., accused by sheriff's deputies of knifing an acquaintance during a fight over a woman, Early Montague shamefacedly explained: "Yeah, I cut him, but my big blade broke and I couldn't get the little blade open to cut some more...