Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior year was calmer. The CRIMSON editorialized against serving rum punch to freshmen and began a short-lived "Uncle Smugley Says" column. Wolff's Tutoring School rolled busily on and actress Joan Bennet, on a visit to Boston, recommended movie careers to a charmed circle of Harvardmen...
...significant form. There is something in a human being which demands that we sense the support and the supported-even though it may be sheathed with other materials, and decorated. Look at the difference between these bland cosmetic boxes and a Gothic cathedral, where every last rib and column is structural...
Lots of alumni magazines used to sound like the social column in the Oblivionville Weekly Gazette; now they dare old grads to think about all manner of profound topics related to education. A measure of this drastic change is that 219 alumni magazines (out of about 500 in the U.S.) are currently tackling the once too ticklish subject of academic freedom. In fact, their 1,634,000 readers are all reading the same article-a deftly done 16-page insert titled "What Right Has This Man?" Their interest reflects the remarkable success of the insert's ambitious author...
...McNamara Monarchy. " Wrote Baldwin: "The 'unification' of the armed services sponsored by McNamara poses some subtle and insidious dangers-creeping dangers . . . that could present, in their ultimate form, almost as great a threat to a secure and free nation as an attempted military coup." In a column distributed to newspapers last month and then ordered killed by the Times News Service before publication, Baldwin said: "Weariness, mistrust, recrimination and mutual suspicion, particularly between many of the top civilian and military officials, prevail" in the Pentagon. Uniformed personnel feel, he said, that "top civilians in the Pentagon show...
...Pegler, the fact that nobody wants his column suggests only that the press itself is failing. "I don't know what's wrong with the papers any more. I think the newspapers of this country are in menopause." A few papers have sounded him out, he claimed, but they wanted too much of the take-half. "I'm no country boy, coming in here for the first time," said Pegler. "I'm a ballplayer already." With no place to play...