Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backers of "Save the Peace" include Manny Margolis 1G, Jerome T. Kilty '50, Ernest M. Howell '47, William D. Brown '46, Mendy Weisgal 1G, Noel D. Lee '46, and Burton S. Glinn '46. Their brief platform states: "We want peace. We oppose the present war hysteria in the government and the press. We oppose UMT and the draft because they are war measures...
Only one more slight addition needs to be made in order to make the catalogue an almost perfect preview of coming attractions: brief explanatory notes appended to those courses, such as Comp. Lit. 35, which will be given next year but not in 1949-50. With that added aid, students could plan course programs more easily for two years ahead. In any case, the Faculty's decision to bring its once-mysterious catalogue up to date is an encouraging sing of progress--a sign which is paralleled by its other wise decision to abolish compulsory hour exams, attendance...
Robbins also disclosed to his cheering deputies, in a brief meeting which at times took on the aspects of a football pep rally, that some donors in their enthusiasm had jumped the starting gun of the drive with a total...
...sunny March day, during the revolutions of 1848, Germans were happy because King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia had just promised them a parliament. Two royal dragoons accidentally fired their muskets into a jubilant Berlin crowd. In the brief fighting that followed, 255 Berliners were killed. The next day, their bodies were placed before the royal palace, and the King and Queen appeared on their balcony to view them (see cut). The crowd shouted: "Take off your hat!" Frightened, the King obeyed. The crowd shouted: "Come down!" Again the King obeyed, and walked respectfully among the biers...
...still personality creations packing enough wallop within themselves to negate their failure in terms of the whole effort. During a nightmare of battle, for example, Peter gains enduring respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread for the entire novel would have spelled far greater stature...