Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From these reversals comes the present position of Harvard lacrosse. With a schedule of three home and ten away games, including trips to Dartmouth, Cornell, and Princeton, the main financial burden has fallen upon the players themselves. Is it not a strange irony that Harvard, the most heavily endowed college in the United States, forces one of its Varsity sports to be supported by the undergraduates themselves...
...Paul, a Roman Catholic priest, dared advise him that he must not try to stay in the front line too long. His old Cologne friend, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, gently explained how in big business a corporation president, by becoming board chairman, sloughs off the daily burden while overseeing the continuity of policy. Adenauer himself badly wanted a strong presidential candidate to head off the "catastrophic" possibility that a Socialist (the popular Carlo Schmid) might win the office. And Adenauer was also swayed by fears that his allies might be preparing to undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia...
...much easier to be a mature student than a mature student-leader; and so the student-leaders are faced with the great burden of living up to the Administration's expectations of them and withstanding the many temptations which the near-absence of administrative control invites. It is thus legitimate for the bitter student-leader to feel that he is his own conscience; with fellow students apathetic and administrators fearful lest they become paternalistic, he is given quite a free hand...
...athletics are to remain the province of less than the entire student body, they must become as nearly self-supporting as possible. After all, subsidy is a nasty word, and an expensive burden for many students...
...movie reaches toward distinction in the performances of Ethel Waters as Dilsey and Jack Burden as the idiot. The stoic, yet feeling portrayal of the colored matriarch is entirely right in terms of the novel. Burden's Benjy is different from the novel's, of necessity. But he brings dignity to the role, and a face which, in one unchanging expression, somehow conveys confusion and understanding, love and anger, and an enormous sensitivity...