Word: alterity
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Guerard--probably the best known of the four--is a novelist, literary critic, and teacher or writer on modern English. His writings include "The Past Must Alter," "The Hunted," "Maquisar," and "Night Journey." He is also the author of critical works on Robert Bridges, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and Andre Gide. A graduate of Stanford, he received his Ph.D. there, and joined the University faculty...
...worked up from the opposable thumb to the implosible bomb, he has learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food he eats, the water he drinks and the air he breathes. To safeguard these, he has to work, in an endless spiral, for more complete control of his environment...
...view of this strong stand and the new Ivy Group agreement, one athletic official last night insisted it was unlikely that Harvard will alter its opposition...
Nunc ad illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin...
...Curse of Monopolies. The system of state participation in enterprise allows the government and privileged bureaucracy to spread itself in such a way as to handicap and alter an economic dynamism otherwise capable of increasing production and absorbing the ever-growing labor market. These companies and the state monopolies acquire such credit and fiscal privileges that they can, at will, kill any private competition. It is the state−that is, the community−which bears the almost constant losses...