Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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F.D.R. left Sara Roosevelt's world, where genteel people set good examples, to begin making another world for himself...
...life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings became a Harvard institution-long after Copey began to feel old ("Do you suppose I am ever to be well again? You must remember that I am 63 . . ."), and long after he retired ("I am 82 years old-God damn...
...Dean of Freshmen stated that in 1923-24, when present records begin, 16 percent of all freshmen were on the Dean's List, and 13 percent were dismissed. Last year, however, the Dean's List figure was 30.2 percent, and only 2.3 percent were required to leave...
...Stalingrad" is a novel of mood. Instead of a plot, there is only the overpowering atmosphere of snow and gray skies and beaten men--and death. Plievier indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that...
...students, there would be easy talk, and plenty of wine, after dinner in Q's "Q-bicle." Q scorned teetotalers (he once got through a church luncheon by spiking his lemonade with gin). Later, in his rooms, the talk would last into the night, though Q himself might begin to undress, popping in & out of his bedroom, now shoeless, now trouserless, until he was orating in his underwear...