Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoosiers began to call Kinsey's base of operations at Indiana University "The Sex Center." "Hotter than the Kinsey report" became a common figure of speech. At Harvard, the chorus of a student song featured the lines...
...uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...
...amore (the front of love). Love is his rallying cry and his bridge between the spiritual and the political worlds: "Men and women, arise! A new age approaches. . . . You were born to see the age of Christian solidarity when wealth will be voluntarily and freely bent to the common good without the need of violence but through love. . . . Dieu le veult...
...system--it is not just a small lecture where the auditors sit around a table. At Swarthmore, students who are taking a well-conducted seminar do not do it in addition to lectures and the attendant cram examinations. The group, which has been carefully selected on a basis of common interest, meets once a week or even bi-weekly in a four to five hour informal session for which each student has written a paper on one aspect of the day's discussion. At the meeting each student reads his paper which is then criticized and discussed...
...like an alumni weekend," said Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, describing the abundance of ex-leaders of the New Deal regime at the Americans for Democratic Action convention under the auspices of the Liberal Union in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room last night...