Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Student Council committee has produced another report demonstrating complete inability to deal with the central issues of its chosen problem. The Parietal Hours committee has written a study which may overwhelm students and impress council members, but which has no hope of convincing the Faculty...
...past half year. Since the HSA report, which was crippled by a biased committee, the Council received a report on NSA and two on NDEA. The NSA study devoted itself to the problem of how a representative student organization could be achieved, without ever really discussing the central issue of whether such an organization is desirable...
Contrasting with this central love affair, a pair of ultra-sophisticated demi-mondaines cross "our boy and girl's" path, yawning at each other with remarks such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough...
...tried and condemned opponents on their own. Blythe, who was obviously no labor sympathizer, records one such drumhead trial. John O'Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition, his picture helps fill in the panoramic sweep of history with specific detail, showing just how things were in a time before the camera became ubiquitous...
...Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories and go to the banks to borrow." Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: "I think the tight money situation will last another six to eight months. Right...