Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebration of the sexual instincts which they represent borders, at its best, on comic poetry. But this erotic yea-saying degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...
DeKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in qualifying for the trip along with freshman Marty Beckwith. In near-perfect form, deKiewiet made every height up to the record on his first attempt...
Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence, stressed that the appointment furthers the attempt to increase faculty contact at Radcliffe and to bring tutorial closer to the Dorms. Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Brown, the first faculty couple, will continue at Comstock next year...
...chaotic prelude, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and the Big Three Ministers wrangled over the 11th-hour attempt to bring East Germany to the conference table...
About 300 Freshmen assembled in the Yard last night in a lackadaisical attempt at a spring riot. Several Cambridge fire engines were called to the scene, but students were relatively peaceful and soon dispersed for lack of action...