Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practicable, the Romney-Laird idea needs the advance blessing of all major candidates for the presidential nomination. They would consequently be committed to the useful notion that the party is bigger than the man, which in itself could help damp down some of the G.O.P.'s intraparty differences. More important for the party's immediate prospects, Romney has already told Laird he would make that commitment. Though condemned by many party regulars as a loner and an opportunist who has used the G.O.P. but has no true allegiance to it, Romney has thus indicated his willingness to contend...
Purity and Joy. For artistic success was not something that came easily to this provincial grain merchant's son. His first student efforts look as if they had been painted in a damp attic. He laboriously copied Louvre masterpieces, lasted only a few days as a student of Academician William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who told him, "You will never learn how to draw...
...World War II. There he suffered not only the unrewarding frustrations of rear-echelon soldiering, but also the discovery-agonizing for a young man-that his vocation for music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born verbal musician. Among the fictional souvenirs of World War II, mostly heavy, khaki-colored, lugubrious and dull, this is a glittering bit of Faberge...
...There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
...Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...