Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Note that in "Charlie Chaddigan" the spirit of Charlie Chaplin, at least, is honored in our revels...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
Kinks & Quirks. Since then, scholars who recognized her as a top-drawer American poet have been trying to get their hands on the originals. The Dickinson family, perhaps in Emily's own reticent spirit, put the scholars off for more than 50 years. The family's main concession: doling out heavily edited volumes of Emily's verse, with many omissions and with arbitrary changes in diction and punctuation designed to make her revolutionary prosody and bold use of words more acceptable to conventional taste. Biographers wanted to know why good-looking Emily ("My hair is bold, like...
...Jersey. Truffle dogs, according to Robba, belong to no special breed. Dogs of mixed ancestry do as well as bluebloods, but such large, muscular breeds as German shepherds are apt to take off after rabbits. Much better are small, snuffly dogs with a good scent and a spirit of cooperation...