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Crisis and Consciousness
To cheer on the reader is this increasingly complicated Popper's broth, Gutzmore
says that Popper's nearly unbelievable picayunishness may "do violence to the
staying-power of normally patient men . . . "22 trying to do normal philosophy of ...
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Debates and proceedings of the Constitutional convention of ...
I have a few words to say in regard to this matter; and I think . it my duty to say,
that J am opposed to the picayunishness displayed by this Convention from the
first day ot its session. It is the cause of nearly all the rascality complained of — all
...
Illinois. Constitutional Convention, Illinois,
1870
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Journal of the History of Ideas
On the other hand, Samuel Johnson of Yale, in a sermon delivered in 1749, while
insisting that the idea of a particular providence could not be abandoned,
subtilized away almost every vestige of its "picayunishness" and obviously felt
himself ...
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MTS, the Michigan Terminal System
As another example of SNOBOLU's picayunishness we find that all binary
operators must have one or more blanks on each side of them. This distinguishes
the binary operators from the unary operators, which cannct have blanks
separating ...
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Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film ...
featured in MOMA's 1946 retrospective exhibited characteristics that usually
appear in American art — repression, lack of arrogance, limited display of
emotion, picayunishness, sternness and sobriety. Most of the pieces carefully
avoid crude, ...
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Cherokee Astrology: Animal Medicine in the Stars
You may be afflicted with intellectual rigidity, a tendency to be over-logical to the
point of picayunishness, a desire to dominate every situation, and just plain ole
ornery stubbornness. There is danger of becoming frozen in one place; if you ...
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An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern ...
This is no time for picayunishness and displays of petty pride.“s If the dream
should ever come true and if—under the influence of a growing labor solidarity
and considerable government pressure—the Negro workers should become
widely ...
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Newdick's Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of ...
I'd like to cuss out the Library officials for their not having removed them from the
canon on your protest in 19 32, and to pillory them for their picayunishness in
general. . . . I am prepared to keep hammering at them, and shall reinforce every
...
William A. Sutton, Robert S. Newdick,
1976
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A Brooklyn Heights Boy Remembers
Had Captain Angerer of the USS Chilton been on the court, there would probably
have been a hanging. Commander Carr, however was not that kind of a martinet.
He saw through the self-serving picayunishness of an officer who could not get ...
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A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000
There has been too much picayunishness — too much jealousy — too much
secrecy."61 This unfortunate exchange pointed out the University's political
difficulties at this critical time. President Smith failed to provide vigorous
leadership in ...