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Before the Overseers met, a Harvard junior attracted a gathering in front of Widener to bemoan the abandonment of Latin. The group marched on the President's house in good spirits and heard Pusey quip. "What's pet in Latin/ Or chic in Greek,/I always distinguish/More clearly in English." The 2000 students paraded around the Square for a while, then went home...
...Angeles, dyspeptic eaters bemoan the omission of La Scala, one of the finest Italian restaurants on the West Coast, and the Cock 'n Bull, whose Sunday hunt breakfast alone is worth a constellation. Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre...
What I cannot tolerate is the evidence of moral decay in our Government-deceit and dishonesty! To think that we yell to the world that the invasion is strictly Cuban, and then publicly bemoan our failure-rehash it thoroughly! This has so thoroughly disillusioned me, I'll never fully believe our leaders again. What an awful way to feel about our wonderful country...
Detroit's pudgy Mayor Louis C. Mariani so much resembles New York's former Mayor La Guardia in his unorthodox approach to problems that Detroiters sometimes call Mariani "Our Little Flower." This spring, rather than sit back and bemoan slow auto sales, Mayor Mariani decided to do something about them. Off to 1,379 fellow mayors in cities from Vineland, N.J., to Yakima, Wash., went personal letters, urging them to step up purchases of city-owned cars, trucks and parts that would normally be bought after July 1. If replacements for some of the 80,000 vehicles used...
Many critics have been quick to look down their pedantic noses at Shakespeare's Merry Wives. They decry its lack of psychologic or philosophic depth; they bemoan its coarse language; they complain that almost none of it is in verse. Indeed the play is prose, but not prosaic. And the critics blame Shakespeare for not producing what he never had the slightest intention of producing. There is evidence that Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with the character of Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV that she commanded the writing of a play about Falstaff in love...