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I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.
The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.
Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.
As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.
And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.
It is something which most of us try to get out from under.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

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The annual CHIO ( short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel ) is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.
It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school.
This album is known internationally for its award winning sound and prestigious title.
It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.
Although Communications no longer publishes primary research, and is not considered a prestigious venue, many of the great debates and results in computing history have been published in its pages.
He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D ' or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman.
This passage begins by describing Scyld ’ s glory as a “ scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches .” Scyld ’ s glory and importance is shown by the prestigious death he obtains through his service as the king of the Danes.
This is usually a prestigious diocese with an important place in local church history.
Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.
It is the second most prestigious chase in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.
UNESCO classifies Corsican as a potentially endangered language, as it has " a large number of children speakers " but is " without an official or prestigious status ".
According to the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, " The Chris Awards ( is ) one of the most prestigious documentary, educational, business and informational competitions in the U. S ; ( it is ) the oldest of its kind in North America and celebrating its 54th year.
The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.
Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Some of the male lecturers in Oxford are still not happy with women getting degrees ; the number of women in the University is restricted by statute to no more than 25 % ( a restriction which would only be removed in the 1970s ); women are segregated in special women's colleges such as Shrewsbury, while the prestigious historic colleges remain exclusively male ; women's colleges are starved for funds and run on a shoestring.
The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the most prestigious full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.
The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, also commonly called the Mundials ( Portuguese for " Worlds "), is the most prestigious jacketed full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.
The event also hosts a non-jacketed division ( no gi ), but that sub-event is not as prestigious as ADCC in terms of pure non-jacketed competition.
The most prestigious German board game award is the Spiel des Jahres (" game of the year ").
" All we can say safely ," says Walter Pohl, " is that the name Huns, in late antiquity ( 4th century ), described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.
The IOI is one of the most prestigious computer science competitions in the world.
The university is a group member of the prestigious American Association of Universities, Universities Research Association, and the Big 12 Conference.
In addition, the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi is supposed to provide € 400 million over the course of 30 years for its use of the museum ’ s prestigious brand.

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