Friday, April 2, 2010

Cavil

Cavil: To cavil is to quibble. It shares its etymology with calumny.
It would be too easy to cavil at the ignorance of point 7 (research into sex differences have been going on for 50 years).
A Book for Today: The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If the beauty be there in the picture, why cavil at the method by which it was obtained?
A Book for Today: The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy Hoobler

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