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Thornton Wilder, during his year here (1950-51) as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, gave assistance to the HDC in its production of his Skin of Our Teeth. While living in Dunster House, Wilder did quite a bit of work on a play called The Emporium, which contained much intriguing material. Wilder is an exceedingly slow and self-critical worker; and he still has not completed this play to his satisfaction...
...coatless puritans presiding over the sybaritic center of the old South Seas, they rapidly got a name as Southeast Asia's most honest administrators. Certainly their streets were the cleanest. But Prime Minister Lee, a wealthy, Cambridge-schooled Chinese, soon grasped that Singapore by itself is an island emporium ill suited to revolutionary socialism since, among other things, it lacks any major industries to nationalize. His revised economic policy: "Teaching the capitalists how to run their system...
...Jones Beach, he kissed his first baby of the 1960 campaign and got the father's promise of a vote. At Coney Island, a coatless, tieless, wide-grinning Lodge, ringed by a flock of oohing-aahing teenagers, made his way to Nathan's celebrated hot-dog emporium, cheerfully gulped down a well-mustarded Nathan's Famous...
...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill, all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, most several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...