Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The connection between the Naval student's loyalty oath and unaffiliated students was found by the HLU leaders in one clause of the oath. The certificate requires NROTC students to describe all relations they have had with certain "subversive" organizations. In this "detailed account" they are also obliged to name...
Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she...
Obstacle Course. In Butte, Mont., Lloyd Beach, rearrested while on a 30-day suspended sentence for vagrancy, explained to the judge that he had been trying to leave town as ordered, but there was one bar too many between him and the city limits.
The initial difficulty attendant to this problem is finding a good definition of the term "whole man." Is he the "complete Rabelaisian man" to whom Aldous Huxley refers: "great eater, deep drinker, stout fighter, prodigious lover, clear thinker, creator of beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To...
Still, this means little to the undergraduate who is forced to get his date out of his room--and in many Houses the building too--by 8 p.m. even on weekend evenings, and who cannot hold parties in his room after that hour. He may realize that the protection of...