Word: preciously
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...Williams' view, life is an insensate jest in which a man is gradually divested of everything that makes life precious, except the gallantry to go on, the one rock-bottom value that Williams never relinquishes. The disenchantment presupposes an initial enchantment. Williams has always lived and preached the creed of the high romantic. The high romantic pushes his hopes, ideals, joys, pleasures and desires past practical limits, past sensible limits and, finally, perhaps past human limits. Like an eternal child, he wants it all and, when he cannot have it all, his heart breaks...
...Powers and you. Mr. Beach are so, so wrong if you think that the Ivy League is going to be able to do anything about it by withdrawing. What has the Ivy League ever done for the NCAA in this country. except to complain anytime it thought its precious, god-al-mighty interests were being endangered. We need more schools like Ohio State. whose athletes and athletic program are a credit to the American collegiate tradition. What we don't need is young men like you. who use a newspaper to spout off radical beliefs and distort the facts...
...campus houses are pretty precious institutions and to give those places up to men would be unfair," Mrs. Bunting explained. "Some girls are quite upset about coed housing, and the off-campus houses are a refuge for them...
...although we surely have many more sympathizers among the silent than successive administrations have granted. It is, in our case, sufficient to think of ourselves as a large, redemptive minority, the bearers, no less than the marchers on Veterans Day, of part, and we would surely say, a most precious part of the American tradition...
...bearing precious seed...