Word: blum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exam puts a great deal of unnecessary pressure on us. We feel that it succeeds only in testing a certain kind of glibness and how much you can keep in your head at any one moment," Lawrence A. Blum, a tutor in Dunster House and a phil graduate student said yesterday...
West Yard, however, had a more fruitful meeting. There, freshman council members, associates, and proctors agreed on repudiating the principle of individual responsibility. "Freshmen don't want a big brother system," council member Paul Blum '70 said...
Through the last turn the two horses pounded, and Gun Bow's lead began to shrink-to three lengths, then two, then one. "I knew he was coming," sighed Gun Bow's jockey, Walter Blum. "I could hear his hoofs, and I could hear the crowd. I thought-well, I thought my horse could let Kelso come up and then draw out." Desperately, Blum went to the whip. Relentlessly, Kelso kept coming. At the top of the stretch, he ranged alongside. "Got you!" Valenzuela yelled-and at the wire Kelso was three-quarters of a length ahead...
...track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down to business. He looped the field on the clubhouse turn, and the applause had already started when he swept around the final turn into the stretch, leading by three lengths. Jockey Walter Blum gave him a quick flick with the whip ("I don't pull up no horses when we're running for 50 big ones," he explained later) and found himself holding on for dear life. Gun Bow's margin at the wire: a widening ten lengths. Sighed Rival Jockey Bill...
Famed normaliens include Henri Bergson, Louis Pasteur, Jules Romains and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before World War II, the school also bred Socialist politicians from Jaurès to Blum. Even now, De Gaulle's Premier is Normalien Georges Pompidou, a banker-professor who writes books on French writers from Racine to Malraux. Yet he is not typical: in the Fifth Republic, normaliens have lost political influence...