Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring's Memorial Church controversy stemmed more from a general feeling that "a false direction" was being adopted by the Pusey administration than from concern over specific issues, Franklin L. Ford, professor of History and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, told the Congregational-Presbyterian Youth Fellowship last night...
...crowd had left before Linda Christian and Ty's two daughters, Romina, 7, and Taryn, 5, laid a 5-ft. cross of white gardenias on the grave-which was all right with Debbie. "Ty belongs to me now," said Debbie. "Whatever anybody else does is of no concern to me any more." Said Linda, "I am happy for her if she can find peace in that belief...
...most significant move, however, is the transfer of Dean Leighton from University Hall to Dudley House, where he will become Master of a House, not yet on equal footing with the rest of the University. Dean Leighton's long-standing and serious concern with the problem of commuting students promises that he will devote every effort to the task of altering Dudley's status within the Harvard community. His patience and energy will be missed in University Hall, but they are essential assets to his new position and to the goal he seeks for Dudley House...
...salient points to remember about Ireland, according to Author Tracy, are 1) that its public attitudes never have any bearing on its private ones: "It is the land of Double Think and Double Speak" where ''words are used as . . . a device for concealment": 2) that the main concern of every Irishman is saving face, and 3) that no Irishman is truly happy except when he is "streeling" from bar to bar, going to a funeral or engaging in a national Fuss. Author Tracy has kicked up her own share of Fusses since she made Ireland her literary beat...
Taking things seriously is as much a part of Yale as the naked rituals of fraternity initiation. Exaggerated concern and threadbare ceremony have established reputation, the bar and the secret grip as the booty of fraternal subsistence...