Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the mediocre and the downright bad is worth reading, if it can be used with the faculties awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
...Coaches Ethan Allen of the New Haven team and Norm Shepard of the varsity will both start their top pitchers. For the Crimson it will be senior righthander Andy Ward, pitching his final league game and looking for his seventh straight win of the season. He has yet to lose this spring. Allen will rely on lefthanded Ken MacKenzie, who shut out Princeton last week, and boasts a 2.00 earned run average. MacKenzie's won-loss record is a mediocre 4 and 3, but two of his defeats came on the southern trip. He has struck out 41 batters...
Some are dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
...varsity's earlier in the week evened its 1954 record with the Elis at one victory apiece; the Bulldogs had previously edged Harvard in May, 5 to 2, behind the steady pitching of sophomore Ken MacKenzie, who is scheduled to start today. The star of Coach Ethan Allen's staff, Mackenzie brings a 6-2 record and a 1.50 earned run average into today's game...
...activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University, and Episcopalian Ethan A. H. Shepley, chancellor of Washington University. As the guest speaker, Baptist Truman had something useful to tell them all about that much-abused term, brotherhood. Excerpts from his speech...