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Incidents throughout this lone confession of Harlow's bring out the innermost secrets of the team. Dick Pfister, Harlow tells, "came to Harvard because a woman teacher had convinced him that there wasn't anything more important than a good education and that he couldn't get a better one...
Whatever one may think of Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's controversial theories, "The Crisis of Our Age" is a valuable book, a single-volumed, relatively concise key to the thought locked in the prolix prose of the four-volumed "Social and Cultural Dynamics." Whatever one may think of these theories...
He was in the city in 1917 on a visit to the Navy Yard, said the President, and he had to hold his nose the whole time. What stirred this olfactory reminiscence was the confession of a Philadelphia newsman that the situation in his home town was "stinking."
The raids on Moscow were in a sense a Russian triumph, for they were a confession of German frustration. They served little military purpose; they were an attack on civil morale.
"About these polls there is one cheering development. It is the increasing number of pollees who answer 'I don't know.' . . . Confession of ignorance is a private virtue and a public service."