Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the non-Communist critics of the Marshall Plan get a hearing at the bar of undergraduate opinion, it seems a little early for the cheerleaders to come springing forth. Let us all take a long-cool second look at the Marshall Plan. There will still be time enough let light the torches crash the cymbals and align oneself with the angels. George Follow '29, Nieman Fellow...
Between shows and trips to the studio, Toni likes to skip rope, ride bicycles, and listen to the Lone Ranger. She is not much impressed by her singing and is cool when her father insists on playing her records for visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says...
While being all things to all men, Runyon succeeded in always keeping his spotlight fixed on the central characters, and his lurid descriptions of them still retain their vitality. But, compared with the cool, intelligent journalism of Trial Reporter Rebecca West, Runyon's reporting is sensationalism cooked to Hearstian taste. Time has dulled the edge of the slangy, informal jargon that won Runyon so many admirers, and his dramatic exclamations pale into mere verbosity when Mrs. Snyder is asked "Why did you kill your husband?" and gives the utterly simple reply...
...Cool Jon Spivak has developed over night into what Jaakko has been looking for in the dashes for the past five years. Under the guidance of University 220 record-holder Doug Pirnie, who now coaches the Freshmen and helps out with the Varsity sprinters, Spivak should get even better...
Reports emanating from other parts of the H.A.A. figured Valpey for head coach with Bill Barclay as the next backfield coach and chief assistant. To this suggestion football squad members voiced cool comments, saying such a move would smack of the old regime...