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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparisons are inevitable and just. In this book about Harvard men, vintage '45, there are traces of his father's measured prose, the briskness of Hemingway, and the flamboyance of some Fitzgerald. In style and content, the hero's speech at his engagement party, rating his happiness second only to his joy on the day he scored two touchdowns against Middle sex, is almost a parody of Marquand Sr.'s Bojo Brown...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: White Shoe and Weak Will | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen and Shovels | 2/17/1953 | See Source »

More Moslems (68 million) live in the Republic of Indonesia than in any other nation. They are mostly docile peasants, content to harvest their rubber, rice, sugar, tea and coffee, but on one subject the Indonesians are as explosive as their island volcanoes: religion. Islam provided both the force and the fervor that ousted the Dutch in 1949; today, a fanatic guerrilla organization, Darul Islam (the Abode of Islam) threatens the unsteady republic with chaos and civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Unknown War | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

This incident is the closest that McGann has been to active political and diplomatic involvement with Person. He feels that foreign service work is too hectic for a family life, and he is content to work from the scholarly angle. On his window sill are several boxes filled with notes for a book he plans to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Tom's Cabana | 2/6/1953 | See Source »

Although the low cost shavings, high in content. may at first be mixed in conspicuously can expect the helping to increase with general acceptance of the new straight numerals policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentrated Iron Found in Food At Kirkland; Economy Move Hinted | 2/5/1953 | See Source »

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