Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent threats by waitresses in the House dining halls to strike will become little more than a bad dream this afternoon when representatives of the Union and of the University sign a new contract granting a preferential shop to the A. F. of L. This afternoon...
...eternal dream of the German people has been fulfilled. . . . Germany wants only peace. She does not want to add to the sorrow of other nations...
...cent of the money used for financing University athletics comes from gate receipts, either some generous endowment must be forthcoming or else burly Western gladiators must be imported to make up a super-football machine, if the much-needed structure is to become more than a mere pipe dream. Until such time, the College can well adopt a temporary stop-gap measure in converting the unfinished top floor of Dillon Field House into two or three bunk rooms so as to take care of at least a few of the visiting aggregations. To do this would require only a small...
Odets has portrayed frustration, bewilderment, man's dream of a better world in all his later plays, sometimes more subtly or more fiercely than in Awake and Sing, but never with so fused and spontaneous an effect. For one thing, Awake and Sing is written with a purity of feeling, a compulsion rather than calculation of purpose, which Odets has never regained. For another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before...
...question is obviously one of finances. Since it is not operated for a profit, the Clinic has no funds for expansion; because the University budget has been reduced in all departments, no aid can be expected from that source; and the dream of an all-wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity...