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Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
they were anxious, disturbed, grave; but some, alas, were also garrulous, given to exclamation, to blaming the authorities for not protecting them, and to theories about where Linois had really been all this time. The Company’s service was a capable, disciplined body, but its regulations required the commodore to listen to the views of his captains
... See morePatrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Thus on my escape from the suburban dormitory culture I found Roger Somers, Elsa Gidlow, Maud Oakes, James Broughton, and Charlotte Selver right beside me. So it was that I found a new self, fleeing to Roger’s pad in the Tamalpais hills, where we could strip to the waist, bang on drums, dance, and chant through most of the night, or accompanying Ch
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Without being a writer himself, he could speak the language of writers better than any editor or publisher” one would ever meet.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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