Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both stories, as with so much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...
Speakers at each dinner will be senior faculty members. Plans are still tentative regarding many of the speakers, and depend upon faculty acceptances. Taylor suggested that Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, would probably be a guest at the dinner for concentrators in the American field...
...Roundup, Face the Nation), and a reporter who sells her byline over a commercial spiel printed in the guise of news. Last week the committee unanimously accepted Newshen Higgins' "withdrawal." Maggie said she was undisturbed at the loss of her congressional press credentials. Said she: "I depend upon personal contact...
...Premature Eden. Thielicke's far-carrying voice in Western Germany does not depend on the eminence of his academic platform or on the 207 scholarly works on Christian ethics which he has published to date. It is what Thielicke says that counts-in his baroque, 3,000-capacity St. Michaelis Kirche in Hamburg, in the university lecture hall, on radio and TV (on which he never appears Sunday mornings so as not to interfere with church attendance...
...fact, a lot of things this afternoon will depend on what the doctors...