Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Punch. His Balcony Escher describes as "a sort of self-mockery. I chose a town built on a hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before...
Last year's council did all these things. Then it examined each rule with strict attention to necessity, desirability, practicability, and consequences. It was not the council's fault that Dean Watson and the Administrative Board chose to ignore a large part of its objections and the whole of their basis in principle. The little green sheet was enacted by the deans and printed up far too late for the fall council to consider...
...mark of the President's own stubborn brand of loyalty that he chose to overlook the damage some of his underlings were causing to the record of his Administration-on which the voters will pass long before the historians get around...
...want to be a success on the campus" was the general attitude towards Eliot. Besides the men there, the library and location influenced many. Seclusion and House spirit drew men to Dunster, while chance of acceptance influenced future Deacons. Party lovers chose Leverett, while gourmets wanted to be in Adams...
Neither House of Congress chose to write any immediate deferments into law. Their rules on deferments refer to UMST, which goes into operation as soon as the President can set up the system. But this may take a couple of years at best. Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) thinks, in fact, that it will not start working for at least four years. Each House did leave in its bill, however, a statement (included in the present law) that the President may defer any and all groups of students as he sees fit. So the President will have...