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...minor but irritating fault: The Opera's authors repeatedly employ a word which they spell "unctious...
Miss Welty has a clean, original prose style, which is clearly self-taught. In one page after another, she turns up sharp landscapes and atmospheres, details of costume, action and speech, with flashes of real brilliance. Her worst fault is her lust for melodrama, of the insidious sort which lies less in violence than in tricked atmosphere...
...know also what obligation and duty their sacrifices imposed on us. They did not die to make the world safe ... for five years or maybe ten or maybe twenty. They died to make it safe. And if, by some fault of ours who lived beyond the war, its safety has again been threatened, then the obligation and the duty are ours. It is in our charge now ... to see to it that 'these dead shall not have died in vain...
However, we do not feel that publications should be considered as "official" in any sense of the term. The author, the board of editors, and the editor-in-chief should be responsible for what goes in each article, not the entire student body. All three were at fault for failing to see the potential dynamite that lurked in the seeming innocence of the words. When the dynamite exploded it was up to them to make amends as best they could. We suspect that the apologies which they rendered, honestly and sincerely, must have helped the situation more than any action...
Cried Margarita: "You are his donna, and I am his donna; your husband is a cuckold, and mine is another. ... If he prefers what is mine to what is yours, is it my fault...