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March is the cruelest of months, yet for President Eisenhower it symbolizes the nation's return to prosperity and happiness. The President is noted for his ability to generate confidence, but his speech last Wednesday was an unfortunate voyage into a never-never land of economic prognostication with no advice offered but these magic words, "Chins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Economy: I | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity is unsurpassed, both in its many inherent benefits to those taking part and in its cultural and educational stimulus to those beholding it. Has not many a sage told us that all the World's a stage...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Harvard Theatre: 1956-1957 | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...cruelest month, breeding tennis out of the dead land. But, sadly, not much tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Waste Land | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

After Adlai entered Princeton, mother took a house there-which he thought "the cruelest thing a parent could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buffie on Adlai | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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