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Although the Program for Harvard College admits that this will not solve the housing problem, it will make a sizeable dent both in itself and by easing the pressure on existing rentals...
...While all this is partly true, the best explanation may be the impatience of this generation to live. The emphasis is removed from the old institutions of political activity. Political organizations lived on a myth. One felt a certain self-importance but it didn't make much of a dent in the totality of things. Acting, singing, writing and composing have a different meanin. They are more expressive and more youthful. Furthermore, the arts allow a complete experience of planning and doing with the result an event as authentic as it will ever be, if not so perfect...
Creeping professionalism has also put somewhat of a dent in the Wolverines' lineup. Wally Maxwell, one of Michigan's best wings, and Neil Buchanan, a crack defenseman, have both been ruled ineligible for play in this tournament. They were guilty of accepting expense money while trying out for the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...felt that our particular type of crusade could at best only make a dent in New York City," writes Billy. "Time after time, as we stood in the midst of this throbbing metropolis, we felt our inadequacy to accept this challenge . . . Protestantism in New York is in an extreme minority.* Ministers have been discouraged and frustrated ... In talking with many of them we found almost a sense of desperation. Ministers who could not agree with us theologically . . . are willing to cooperate simply because there seems to be nothing else in sight for them to reach the conscience of this city...
Dwight Eisenhower seemed fated to be the first winning presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson (1916) unable to sweep his party into control of the House of Representatives. But while Ike and the Republicans did not seem likely to dent the solid majority of 230 seats which the Democratic Party had in the 84th Congress, they did succeed in changing the voting patterns that have dominated U.S. congressional elections for a century. In 1956 the Republican Party was picking up Congressmen in the cities, losing them in the country...