Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing spectacular about 1931's final two years as undergraduates. The headline events of the years just previous, like the sudden severance of athletic relations with Princeton in 1926 or the great riot in the Square in 1927, were markedly absent. But actually, as the Class finished its career, the College itself was completing a revolutionary physical change that left it much as it is today...
What does it mean to be an intellectual in the U.S.? Is he really in such an unhappy plight as he sometimes thinks-the ridiculed double-dome, the egghead, the wild-eyed, absent-minded man who is made to feel an alien in his own country...
...finalists finished up at the rate of two a night. Each night, haggard but happy, the contestants went through a ritual, solemnly crossing the silverware at the places of the two absent finalists who were performing that night, sticking a knife into an erect piece of bread at each place and turning the chairs upside down. At week's end, at last they filed onto the stage, where they heard the verdict of the 13-member panel of judges (including Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Robert Casadesus, Emil Gilels). The winners: first Ashkenazy, second Browning, third Czajkowski...
...then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even been conveniently absent from the Senate when his fellow Wisconsinite Joe McCarthy came up for a censure vote...
...Absent from bookshops for decades, the first two reports, as well as a third that was incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well...