Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would say I think Across the River and into the Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into...
...executives, more interested in what makes radio and TV sell than in how they operate, Goldmark has the quality of a man from Mars. Nobody at CBS except Adrian Murphy, whose intramural title is "Vice-President in charge of Peter," is ever quite sure what Peter is up to. Goldmark is left alone because they all know he's "some kind of a genius." For Board Chairman Paley, it's enough that "you always know what Peter tells you is gospel...
...political dynamite that they were being suppressed. Actually, they had been handed over to Forrestal's executors and put up for sale. Last week, the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate announced that it had bought the papers for an undisclosed price and would syndicate them next spring. Except where military security prevents, the Trib expects to print them pretty much "as is." Viking Press will also publish them in a book...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities has been studying the situation and will soon recommend that all buildings, except Fogg, be totally fee exempt up until...
...rule reading "Admission fees are permissible provided their purpose is to support the legitimate activities of the organization, concerned," leaves too much dependent on the vague word "legitimate" and makes no reference to fees charged on other than University property. It should be changed to "Admission fees are permissible except insofar as they endanger the tax-exempt status of the University...