Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your account of Charles W. Morton's attack on the fraternity system at Williams College [TIME, Sept. 27]-and inferentially against the system in general-my immediate reaction was to diagnose his ... rehash of ancient and outmoded arguments against fraternities as a consequence of a recent attack of ulcers, a psychoneurotic ailment that brought to consciousness a childhood disappointment...
...like the statues-at least, the park draws visitors of all ages in droves. As for blunt-spoken old Gustav Vigeland (who died in 1943), he refused to consider criticism for a moment. Oslo's city fathers gave him what he demanded: carte blanche and an expense account for 24 years to do for Oslo, if he could, what Michelangelo did for Rome (total bill: some $5,000,000). As his part of the bargain, Vigeland gave Oslo more than 120 groups of park statues and 60 bas-reliefs...
...life he now leads at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The severe Trappist discipline includes a vow of perpetual silence, which can be broken only on certain occasions. It is a life of prayer, fasting and contemplation, spiced with hard work. His account of haying...
...They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...
...friend of mine overheard saying, at a Phillips Brooks House tea, that she came to Radcliffe because it's three hours from New Haven, switched from French to Drama soon after arriving, and thinks she may now have to transfer somewhere else on account of there's no Drama course at Radcliffe...