Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
...floruit was in one of the great age of Harvard. The names of his colleagues were trumpet blats calling to the banquet of literature and philosophy: James, Royce, and Palmer, Santayana, Baker, Briggs, Perry. Copeland, like Santayana, happily is still with us, as friends remember with effectionate esteem. But such galaxies of eminence are not to be picked up in a forenoon's shopping tour of the academic counters, and neither are they fostered by professional purges...
Most hilarious chapter is about Hollywood, where at one revolutionary banquet, the high-priced cinemarxists raised their champagne glasses in a toast before bursting into "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Most important chapter is the one on red-baiting. Lyons points out that the epithet "red-baiter," uttered in shrill tones of ethical exaltation, has a paralyzing effect on almost all liberal critics of Communism, is one of the most effective silencing tricks in the versatile Communist repertory. The Lyons recipe for overcoming it: "Walk up boldly to the terrible hobgoblin and . . . say, 'Boo!'' He warns liberals...
Dartmouth's alumni, who love every wrinkle of Hoppy's square, rugged face, toasted him at a banquet (his own class -'01-had its 40th reunion). Dartmouth men were proud of what he had done for Dartmouth: he had upped endowment from $4,000,000 to $18,000,000, nearly doubled the faculty and student body. They were proud of his services to the nation: he was in charge of U.S. industrial relations under Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in World War I; in World War II he runs metal and mineral priorities for OPM. They...
...infirmary scene the color-struck director dyed the white sheets green, hued the actors' faces with green spotlights. To keep the green flowers and vegetables from clashing with his black- & -white banquet scene, he dyed them black. To give clothes and props the oily texture of a painting, he tinted them with spray guns...