Word: brookses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The idea of community service receives little mention: for most people Phillips Brooks House remains an activity to be squeezed in if there is time left over, and motives often involve personal interests, such as pre-medical work, rather than altruism. Outdated and offensive. the attitude of noblesse oblige is...
A novel experiment involving 140 University volunteers, the Metropolitan State Hospital, and $87,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health started last week at Phillips Brooks House.
There have been other dead heats, of course. The Cardinals whipped the (then) Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and Cleveland dispatched Boston in a one-game A.L. playoff in 1948. But the only climax that seems likely to match this year's in sheer excitement was the 1951 thriller, when the...
Last week, on a long, straight course tailor-made for high horsepower, Britain's Tony Brooks led the Ferraris to a one-two-three sweep of the German Grand Prix in West Berlin,* and Brabham failed to finish. But Brabham still leads Brooks in the world driving championship, 27...
BARBARA SREER, by Stephen Birmingham (371 pp.; Little, Brown; $4.50), is based on a standard Marquand gambit-you can go home again, and again, and again. As she sees herself, Barbara is a yacht-club girl in a rowboat basin. Locustville, Pa. is an industrial town, and her husband Carson...