Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness. According to Eliot, the greatest poets, and specifically Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, have "Abundance, Amplitude and Unity." By abundance. Eliot means that (unlike T. S. Eliot) "they all wrote a good deal." By amplitude, he means that "each had a very wide range of interest, sympathy and understanding." As for unity, "it is Life itself, the World seen from a particular point of view...
Following a stern P. & G. code for company officers, he spent a third of his time in unpaid civic service, directed the framing of a master plan for improving Cincinnati, headed Red Cross and Community Chest drives, became trustee of the city's Institute of Fine Arts, a member of the executive committee of the Summer Opera Association, Harvard overseer, an adviser to the University of Cincinnati. In 1955 President Eisenhower tapped him for the biggest lay-educational assignment of all: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration...
...making them into message holders, a book on cryptoanalysis, maps of Chicago and Washington and upper New York State, radio tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want me to see it, Mr. Brandt? Smokes pipe and has red book in left hand...
...seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because the marine "had been drinking whisky for several hours, showed symptoms of pathological intoxication and was in a state of mental unsoundness...
...into the order. His arm was ritually slashed and his blood sucked by all the members present. With his wound still throbbing, he took the oath: "I swear by our noble ancestors, the Spanish Knights Osso, Mastrosso and Carcagnosso, to be faithful to our honored society, to obey its code and to fulfill all duties imposed on me unto death...