Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory behind this policy is that the student will specialize during his last year, taking courses in the century in which his thesis falls. But since the first draft of the thesis in to be completed by December, no course taken in Senior year can have very much bearing on it, and students will want to take courses relevant to their special area prior to starting work on the thesis. The alternatives, again, are either to be badly prepared for the extremely crucial orals, or else to take a disproportionate number of courses in an extremely limited area...
...same fantastic tinges as his political views. To Lee, politics is not the art of the possible; his platform rests on promises to reinstitute the incredible. He is against the income tax, but not just its harshness; he wants repeal of the 16th Amendment. He wants to stop the draft, break U.S. ties with the United Nations, give up our foreign aid programs, institute a national right-to-work law, and halt all Federal assistance to the school system. These planks make up the dream world of J. Bracken...
...days after its author's thirty-first birthday. He could still pass for an undergraduate, showing up for a drink in a herringbone tweed jacket, button-down shirt, and dark slacks: a slightly-built undergraduate with an impressively thick Southern accent. Surprisingly, the barman neglects to ask for his draft card...
...Hemingway," wrote the author himself, inscribing a first-edition copy of The Torrents of Spring to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, the obstetrician who twice officiated as Hemingway became a Papa. In one of two copies of The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway noted for Dr. Guffey that "the first draft of this book was commenced on my birthday-July 21 in Madrid and it was finished September 6 of the same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable travel information." Last week Bibliophile Guffey...
This change of character is further intensified by the ineffectual, boyish performance of Horst Buchholz, who plays the title role. Instead of the dashing Felix, Buchholz is an embarrassed bush leaguer playing in the big-time. Except for the highly humorous draft-dodging scene, Buchholz does not command the situation. This is indeed unfortunate, because although the other acting is quite sufficient, the role of Felix completely dominates the story...