Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before he flew to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize money, Novelist William (Intruder in the Dust) Faulkner, a qualified authority on the seamy side of life, was cornered by Manhattan reporters who asked him what he considered the most decadent aspect of American life. Answered Faulkner: "It's this running people down and getting interviews and pictures of them just because something's happened to them." For the presentation in Stockholm, Faulkner made his first appearance before a microphone and TV cameras, wore white tie & tails for the first time, met fellow Prizewinner Bertrand Russell...
...questions are, of course, rhetorical. I suspect that your writers have a carry-over Stover-at-Yale obsession from childhood, or that they are congenitally unhappy. For a reporter, by all journalistic canons with which I am acquainted, would shrink from taking one aspect of the life of a community (and even that was treated with liberal superficiality) and generalizing it as the overall picture. A visitor to Cambridge, for instance, might read the Lampoon's recent miscarriage and bruit it about that all Harvard men are intellectual snobs and/or obscene. Upon a perusal of the CRIMSON, he might conclude...
...story did not pretend to be an "overall picture" of Yale. Yale and Harvard are a lot alike; the CRIMSON was looking for the differences. What Mr. Ellis admits is "one aspect of the life" of Yale, we think is the main difference between Harvard's and Yale's value; that is why we played...
...impression has been," Duesenberry said, "that when we handle tutees much below Group IV, it doesn't produce results superior to those we get in the classroom anyhow." Duesenberry explained that the "give and take" aspect of tutorial rarely gets going in sessions with men of low academic standing...
...somewhat less tenable than before. After the massive surprise attack of last fortnight, instead of pressing their advantage they stopped in their tracks and even pulled back, in some sectors, beyond reach of Allied patrols. They counterattacked cautiously when the regrouped U.N. forces advanced cautiously; but the whole aspect of their operations last week was defensive, not offensive...