Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Identity, fattened a bit by age and apparent prosperity, consists of a set of poems by Lyon Phelps, Harvard Class Poet of some time back, who recently gave a reading at the Poet's Theatre sitting on a stool in the middle of a brass bedstead...
After decrying the apathy of the Harvard student, as if there were something inherently bad about being apathetic, all the contributors to Gadfly offer us is their two-bit philosophy for our thirty-five cents. Therein lies the true tragedy of the magazine, for it is all too apparent that these undergraduates, so eager to say something, really have nothing at all to communicate. The reader has the feeling of having traversed a hog wallow only to be informed that he is dirty...
After the President left to go back to the White House, Dulles chatted briefly with Herter and the others. Then Dulles volunteered a bit of advice to Herter that showed the personal qualities that the President found so invaluable...
...enthusiasm and imagination made a great impression on us at Lambeth," said a top British cleric this week. "Archbishop of Canterbury Fisher has been a bit conservative, perhaps, in his approach to TV and other 20th century methods of mass communication. Bayne is from the New World; he is young and wants to grapple in a modern manner with the problems facing the church today. He wants to see that we don't go on plodding along the road we have always been plodding along. There's been a lot of fluttering in the dovecots over Bayne...
...Russians do it, the evil bird-sorcerer is killed by the Prince, and the lovers walk happily into a rose-colored sky; the fight in which the Prince tears off one of his enemy's wings is a bit of Socialist realism totally out of place in the classical ballet, but it makes for some immensely exciting dance. The effect of these and other changes was to make the Russian Swan Lake a looser, more romantic interpretation than Western observers are accustomed to seeing. On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom...