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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that the Administrators of Lamont Library are in error when they prevent 'Cliffe students from using its facilities. However, the author of the letter is attacking this problem with the same immaturity that she accuses us and our administration of having. Her "name-calling" was rather amusing but very unimpressive. The more mature way of dealing with this error would be reason rather than "name-calling." I might propose that "Miss Name Withheld" get a majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong...
...died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress, but she, too, declined the honor. The reader has Author Lonyay's full assurance that another mistress, Mary Vetsera, was delighted to accept. She was thrilled at the thought of being found dead in bed with the heir to the throne...
...Author Lonyay's book is obviously intended as the final word on the whole gruesome story; in a case where the patchwork evidence has been so dispersed among the noble attics of Europe, that is probably top much to hope...
...Weinstock right in saving the deserter? Were the former prisoners right in killing him? Author Comfort implies that Weinstock was right, on the ground that an act of human kindness is its own justification and reward. In the end, the harried Weinstock, fearful of being jailed for the deserter's killing, flees the city. Where to? For him it does not matter; "one place [is] as good as another...
British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, forthright, nonfictional assessment of the lost generation. Author Brittain has never again written so movingly...