Word: shibboleth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...morning ago I ran across the words "unprincipled", "irresponsible", "invidious", and "shibboleth" in your paper. I confess that I am not up to all these big words before breakfast, since I am a simple man, and especially since (as possible subsequent investigation by secret-agents Wyant and Poskanzer will bear out) I am only an English major. Yet the April 26th letter, by the individuals mentioned above, confuses me a little. Far from wishing to submerge myself in this blood-bath of fierce partystrife, I would merely like to tender timidly some thoughts which are in no way representative...
...personal damage is still done, as is well indicated by the attacks upon public figures by irresponsible individuals in Washington. It must be quite apparent to the CRIMSON that it has become party, innocently or otherwise, to the mud-slinging attack instigated by thoughtless members of the community; a shibboleth joyously taken up by other individuals whose only contribution to Harvard is constant, vicious, destructive criticism of the worst kind. If Wrenn is at all interested in the constructive work of the Council we refer him to page one, column three of the CRIMSON in which his letter appears. There...
...central theme of this essay, as of several of the smaller ones, is the struggle of men to remain more than mere cogs in an impersonal, institutional machine. The "right to a private existence, unconditioned by history and society," is Mr. Huxley's shibboleth, the one he propounded so effectively in "Brave New World...