Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carleton students, like their peers across the U.S., are not visibly anguished by issues; said one senior: "If anything bothers the students it's that nothing really does bother them." Yet, says History Professor Catherine Boyd. "I've never had students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke...
...rain-soaked welcomers at Tempelhof Airport, "we and our Western allies will master the situation." And then these two men, in accord on the big issues, went their separate politicking ways. Adenauer was careful to criticize West German Socialists like Ollenhauer, but not Socialist Brandt. And Brandt did not bother to campaign against his Christian Democratic opponent, Ernst Lemmer, a member of Adenauer's Cabinet...
...latest Bankhead story was making the rounds from Lindy's to Sardi's. Tallulah, it seems, was stopped on Fifth Avenue by a Salvation Army lass shaking a tambourine for a holiday handout. Tallulah dipped into her handbag and produced a $50 bill. "Don't even bother to thank me, dahling," she growled as she dropped the bill into the tambourine. "I know what a perfectly ghastly season it's been for you Spanish dancers...
Mechanically, the production is weak. The attempt to make Matisoff look bald makes him look like a victim of skull-fracture. The lights flicker at odd moments. The producers did not bother to procure a little boy for the messenger role. Happily enough, the almost dadaist spirit of the play accommodates any number of lapses like these, as long as the actors are as convincing as the current group...
Past managing boards simply have thought that the bother and expense of obtaining a license were too great, Hammond said. However, the present board thinks that a bar in the Faculty Club now would be used enough to warrant a permit, he added...