Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...
There will be no departmentalization. "We are interested," says Hendricks, "in broad general education, cutting across the narrow lines of specialized interest. . . . We want to integrate the learning of all branches of education. When we teach literature or language, we want our students to learn at the same time the history of the period which they are studying. We want faculty members who, in a political science course, can teach a little literature...
There are also some painfully accurate re-enactments, and a parody of singing commercials ("Consolidated sardines-America's delight," etc.) which could never be too broad for its model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...
That no imaginative appeal for new support is made constitutes a weakness all the greater because the foremost requirement for an effective student organization is a broad base of participation. Interest at Harvard in NSO has been more spasmodic than widespread. A minor tempest arose over the question of whether or not NSO should be affiliated with the International Union of Students, formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits...
...quite the same in the summer, without the Annex. "Pretty good game today, wasn't it?" he ventured. "Sloppy," she replied out of the corner of her mouth. "Well, that starting pitcher just had a bad day," he said bravely. "Bad day! Why that pantywaist couldn't hit the broad side of I wouldn't like to say what." "Not Radcliffe," Vag breathed to himself. "What did you say?" asked the girl. "Oh, I just wondered if you thought you were going to win the raffle." "Me? You nuts? Er, it's the big bankers who win those things. Fixed...