Word: climber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done the most creditable job. John P. C. Train '50, in a semi-Liebling-like analysis of Mexican newspapers, displays again the effortlessness and sophistication which make most of his stuff easy and delightful to read. There is a story by Oliver Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society...
There are always guests for lunch. Through one week the visitors' list may note such diverse personalities as General and Mrs. Eisenhower, a mountain climber just returned from the Himalayas, and the Comtesse de Paris, some of whose husband's Bourbon ancestors resided briefly in the Elysée. Most afternoons and evenings are packed with official receptions, dinners and speeches, but the President prefers a quiet evening at home-dining with Madame Auriol in a small bedsitting room. When he has no official engagement, he tries...
...insatiable climber whose Princeton ambition was to become a big-man-on-campus, Fitzgerald was embarrassed both by his Irish mother and by his father's job as a wholesale grocer's salesman. Years later he wrote to Novelist John O'Hara: "I am half black Irish and half old American stock with the usual exaggerated ancestral pretensions . . . Being born in that atmosphere of crack, wise crack and countercrack I developed a two cylinder inferiority complex ... I spent my youth in alternately crawling in front of the kitchen maids and insulting the great...
Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...
...Idea of the Whole. Jan Smuts had always been in the fray-as statesman and soldier, as author, orator, mountain-climber, scientist, philosopher. He had been such an indefatigable participant in his time's great events that the world came to think of him as one of its great men. More honored abroad than at home, for more than 40 years he made the voice of his far-off country heard in the world...