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In taking this position, Buckley ought to have noted the inconvenient fact that historically, running a Christian college (which to Yale really meant a Protestant college) meant excluding, to some extent, Catholics and Jews--and that, a mere two or three years before publishing this book, he himself had encountered some evidence that systematic exclusion might still going on.
NBC's new drama has been on for a mere two weeks (Fri.
Fish took Milton's contradictions to be a dramatization of the theological paradoxes of his day, rather than mere literary error.
They have lived in the Carpathian Basin for a mere 1,100 years — but during that time they’ve had more than their share of suffering.
Feed the cat, hope things hold together long enough for my next two novels to get into print, watch a lot of E! Channel TV, and resume all vices, since mere self-destruction no longer matters.