It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Today the Negro must discover his role in an industrialized South, which indicates that the racial aspect of the Southern dilemma hasn't changed radically, but rather has gradually come to be reflected in this new context, this new coat of paint.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

Next to the old problem of the slowness of decision making, network structure seems to be paramount, and without monitoring no network has value.

Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.

Ideally speaking, it should be allowed to operate only where the public has a great stake in the continuity of supply or services, and where the actions of a single proprietor are secondary to the needs of society.

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

Research into several cultures has proven her position to be a mistaken one.

In the field of the social sciences a considerable fund of tested knowledge has been accumulated that can be used to good advantage.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

He has employed from his section rich immediate materials which in a loose sense can be termed Southern.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

As an illustration of the principle of simplicity the heliocentric discovery has a peculiar appeal because it allows simplicity to be arithmetized ; ;

He has his own system of shorthand, devised by abbreviations: `` humility '' will be `` humly '', `` with '' will be `` w '', and `` that '' will be `` tt ''.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

But Corporal Johnson has alreadeh said it didn make no diffrunce t'hi-im ''.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

`` Some guys bothered me '', Mercer has said.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

`` He has lost much blood '', he said.

`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.

`` This '', he said, `` is exactly what has been happening between the politically free nations in the postwar world.

In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

Noting all the difficulties that stand in the way of reunion, he has said that they ought not to discourage anyone.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.