Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league college life. Instead, undergraduate life at Ohio is typified by a relaxed informal provincialism; nobody rushes around very much, everyone knows everybody else, and few people care what happens outside of the immediate vicinity of the Marietta River Valley. Whereas almost anything at Harvard or its companion eastern schools is done in a big way, things at Ohio are done in a small way, But unlike most state colleges where education is often a happazard secondary consideration to campus life, Ohio offers a very good college education to the student body...
...awards are apportioned equally between the four national regions. Harvard students may apply only for the three given to students from Eastern universities...
...EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, where the people in Russian satellite nations are denied expression of their patriotism and their spiritual faith...
Dance of Doubts. The lone dark horse, unknown to the Eastern newspapers until his dramatic flight across the continent, found himself an overnight favorite with the tabloids. "Slim" or Captain Lindbergh to his St. Louis backers, he is dubbed the "Flyin' Fool." Photographers crash his hotel room at Garden City, L.I. for pictures of "Lindy" shaving, Lindy in pajamas. When reporters quiz his mother on how she feels about the suicidal risks of the flight, Lindbergh flares into a sharp resentment of the press which he never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin...
Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...