Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vassar student also learns about "Fundies" (The Physical Education Department's attempt to correct Freshman protrusions"), a rather arbitrary though somewhat meaningless definition for Circle ("The symmetrical botanical garden located in front of Students"), and, most important of all, the reason for avoiding "Pro (academic):" "It means less overnights...
Quos for Pros. John Joseph James Miller uncovers the celebrities like a one-man Confidential (whose contents he dismisses as "despicable"). His stuff ranges from the smutty to the delirious. Samples: "A bungled assassination attempt on the Queen of England was hushed up real fast." "Sophia Loren likes to stand in front of a mirror for hours admiring herself while wearing nooding." "Marlon Brando slugged the hairdresser at the beauty parlor he visits daily...
...assumed that the governor was entitled to declare a state of insurrection and to bring military force to the aid of civil authority, the proper use of that power in this instance was to maintain the federal court in the exercise of its jurisdiction and not to attempt to override...
...Soviet cruelty and treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations of Western activity in Algeria, Oman and Syria. In fact, the British Foreign Office last week described the flurry of Russian notes about the Middle East as simply an attempt "to distract attention" from the forthcoming meeting of the U.N. Assembly to consider the report on Hungary. The world would be a much simpler place if that was all there...
...cataloguing nearly every experience. His novel is partly an ingenuous travel book, partly a collection of journalistic jottings about adventures that are known to everyone who has ever hitchhiked more than a hundred miles in the U.S. The book's importance lies in Author Kerouac's attempt to create a rationale for the fevered young who twitch around the nation's jukeboxes and brawl pointlessly in the midnight streets. He sees his characters as "the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones...