Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera for itself . . . object to the sneering and leering of those who choose (shall I say to be charitable) to be so damn superior. . . . The singers do not "snort and bellow!" If they did they would find themselves out of a job-but quickly! And one does not attend the opera to see acting. Get that straight! One goes to hear . . . the ecstasy of the human soul in song...
...Robinson's father permitted him to attend Harvard as a "special student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large...
...members of the Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center had been invited to go to the meeting for a short time to present their views on the memorial. Daniel P. S. Paul '46, executives secretary, Thomas S. Kuhn '45, and Thomas L. P. O'Donnel '47 will attend the gathering on behalf of this group of younger alumni...
...fourteen men on the Saltonstall Committee, four are definitely not expected to attend the meeting tomorrow...
...best and most imaginative of Author Wilder's imagined documents are those written by the chief of Caesar's secret police, dealing with an attempt on Caesar's life after he has reluctantly agreed to attend Clodia's dinner. Wounded by assassins on the way, with two deep cuts in his right side reaching from his throat to his waist, Caesar nevertheless insists on going on, after his wounds have been bound with sea moss...