Word: interjection
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member of the Judiciary Committee, felt compelled to interject: "The line of questioning in this case is unprecedented, and, from what I have heard so far, I must say irrelevant...
Eble devotes a chapter to the battle between faculties and administrations. Part of the trouble stems from the loss of students' zeal ("American students come reluctantly to learning"), compared with the old days when students controlled the colleges and levied fines on professors late to class. I might interject here that in Latin American students still sometimes gain control of their universities, but in a manner that would have shocked their medieval predecessors. In the U.S., at any rate, the colleges now have to provide "both impetus and direction" since today's students have "no clear idea where they...
...attempts a diary. Eventually Isherwood decides that chaos is not his cup of tea. Later, safe in England, he muses, "I didn't belong on his island. But now I know I don't belong here, either." Lugubriously he adds, "Or anywhere." The reader is tempted to interject that the author-hero belongs exactly where he is, in Hollywood-on-the-Ganges...