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...before the meeting they held a conference in Tim Petri's room. His roommate, Bruce Chapman, is a member of the Alberg, Barber, Chapman combination which Phillips claimed had dealt him such an unkind blow in the HYRC. Chapman was not there, but nonetheless the Hornblow movement had the aura of a political war party out for revenge. Since Howie won the Massachusetts YR Chairmanship from former HYRC boss Hugh Barber, he is a strong candidate for national chairman. Bruce Chapman is actively backing current HYRC President Tom Alberg for the post. Many suspected in the Council petition a thinly...
Even coincidence smiled on the collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...
...current endeavor to surround the admissions process with an aura of mystery is probably a defense mechanism on the part of a Committee harassed by applicants, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and principals to define what the College is "looking for." Such a definition could quickly become extraordinarily limiting for a school which wants to remain flexible enough to identify, attract, and reward many forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping...
Descartes termed space "indefinite," reserving the word "infinite" to describe a void. In Newton's mind, though, infinity lacked the Cartesian aura of perfection...
Tonight at 8:30 p.m. in the Loeb Drama Center a tiny, dark-haired woman will walk gracefully out in front of a University audience to deliver the fourth annual Ann Radcliffe lecture. Her bearing and quick movement have a vaguely French aura, her low-pitched, melodic voice has a clear-cut, British vibrancy--but she is a South African by birth and by choice. Her name is Nadine Gordimer, her profession is writing, and her topic will be "The Novel and the Nation--South Africa...