Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, a book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...
...representative in Italy, Moscow-trained Comrade Secchia had long possessed authority, secret dossiers and generous allocations of funds with which to build a personal machine within the party. But at the national party conference a fortnight ago, he rashly got himself identified with party diehards, who want to discard Palmiro Togliatti's "soft" policy for tough methods (TIME, Jan. 24). Because Moscow has decreed there should be no public quarrel now, Comrade Togliatti waited his chance to serve a cold dish to Pietro Secchia...
...style commercial announcers, many of whom have spent 20 years selling a multitude of products over the air, may be on their way out. Elbowing them toward the discard is a new breed-most of them entertainers by profession-who have tied their commercial destinies to specific sponsors...
...feel like reading the book, or begin it and find you don't want to go on, put it on your shelves as an investment; don't discard it at a loss. It is strange how you can have a book-or a whole row of books by the same author -on your shelves for years . . . and wonder what on earth made you acquire them. Then suddenly one day . . . you will find yourself picking up the volume, settling down to it, enjoying it, and be completely at a loss to know why you never came to it before...
...already completed in secondary school." Thus Finch's announcement a year later means that the Faculty has been considering the program over a year and that its study is well-advanced. It is believed by Princeton observers that Finch would have refused all comment were the school about to discard consideration of an Advanced Standing Program...