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...current exhibition at Fogg reflects the interest and enthusiasm of Harvard undergraduates in the pursuit of quality. There are paintings here, as well as drawings and prints; there is also an occasional hint of the presence of parent collections amidst examples of more direct commitment and sacrifice. But, in any case, the element of choice and decision is present throughout...
...until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...
...monosexuality of life amidst the monuments of New Haven during the week may be an overemphasis, yet an Eli's social life is geared for the weekend, much in the same manner as that of a girl at an isolated women's college. For on weekends the campus is indundated with females from Vassar, Connecticut, Smith, and other foreign territories...
...more lighthearted utterances, Winston Churchill said: "All babies are like me." The resemblance is more than superficial. Amidst the blooming, buzzing confusion which is an infant's world. Churchill remained the calm eye of the nursery hurricane, demanding a child's secure universe of bath (always at the same temperature), undisturbed nap, and steady liquid diet...
Families. "Amidst the most damaging aberrations of modern pagans is the opinion of those who define fecundity as a social evil." Enumerating the blessings of having many children, the Pope added: "No sooner are the happy pilgrimages to the baptismal font ended than the bright series of first communions and confirmations begins, and when the smallest brother puts away his first-communion suit, out comes the family's first nuptial veil, bringing together before the altar the parents, all the children, and the delight of new in-laws...