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...last quibble--Geismar's style. People who read much James tend disastrously to write like James, subjecting us unnecessarily to numerous syntactical Clearings of Throats, verbal blinkings of eyes, italicized emphasis, and such careful distinctions as capital and lower case letters may afford. Geismar is no exception...
...increase in stationery allowance (to $2,400 per year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year after year. If you don't want to go, why don't you just shut up?" Retorted Gross: "I'm going...
Deans Ford and Glimp yesterday gave firm verbal assurances that scholarship money would be increased enough "to cover fully" the effect of the new single rent rate going into effect next year...
...fall of 1960 was an exciting season for American politics. Senator Kennedy and vice-President Nixon three times played verbal fisticuffs, inaugurating a new era in American politics with their televised debates. Kennedy claimed that a new generation was about to take control of the country. For American college students, Kennedy represented a new political phenomenon: he seemed to promise that politics could be idealistic. Most impressive, he promised something called the Peace Corps--a modern version of William James' "Moral Equivalent...
French Playwright Anouilh has too often been dismissed as a kind of verbal dandy. Yet his underlying vision of life is dark and inconsolable. Anouilh's characters suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. Anouilh is not interested in either ex posing or extolling his characters. He simply wants to catch them, and the audience, in the cruel toils of the human situation, masked, as it always is, with deceptive everyday smiles. Of The Rehearsal...