Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then wrapping himself in a cloak of political doubletalk, Henry grandly brushed aside criticism of Soviet totalitarianism. "The Russians," he explained, "approach the democratic principle through an economic dictatorship." Said Sol Bloom: "Oh, stop kidding...
...lectern. She did not, as some had predicted, arrive on broomstick, astride a lion, or floating on a stream of gurgling honey. She was clad in her poetical uniform (as publicized in Life): a long, green dress, heavy coils of silver around her wrists, and a floor-sweeping, golden cloak with slits for her hands, which clutched her two books, and a large, black, and jarringly prosaic leather handbag...
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...ballyhoo about the charm of Atlantis is completely lost on the screen. All that shows up are dingy rooms, some standard modern dance routines that are supposed to be pagan rituals, several hooded cloak and dagger men, and Maria Montez. Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle...
Bingham is the HYRC member at whom Robert C. Fisher '51, NSA delegate, levelled several charges when Fisher resigned from the HYRC last December. The accusations stated that Bingham headed a "Cloak and Dagger Department" which was run in a "Machiavellian atmosphere...