Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the Faculty Committee. It is this Committee, not the Dean, which decides these matters and the Committee has a clear record through its whole existence of protecting the freedom of Harvard student organizations. My statement expressed my personal point of view which I have hold ever since I was old enough to think about such issues; it also stated the fundamental policy which the Committee and the University as a whole have supported for generations...
...about two German schoolboys, is pleasant enough. Perhaps Rudolf should have used that bucket of flour on Father Gerhart after all. As for the poems in Signature, they all seem to be well-written, particularly Anabel Handy's "The Hermitage," which contains one of the nicest similes I have ever seen. Signature must be commended for its policy of publishing this type poem and story...
...unique evening. For it is not a musical as musicals have come to be known. Not quite everything works out joyfully in the end. Its songs are not superimposed more or less meaningless on its story; they seem to be what the characters would sing if they ever happened to burst into song. Its comedy characters are not simply eccentrics. Its here is not a Jack Armstrong who has taken singing lessons. Its cast is not just a collection of handsome people; almost everyone can act. It has no ballet. And it has no elaborate finales; both acts end with...
...present bills show some of the influence of this lobby. The House bill extends controls for 15 months, guarantees the ever-mentioned "fair-return," and gives state and city governments local jurisdiction on lifting ceilings completely. The Senate bill is even weaker, providing for an automatic 15 percent jump in rents while it is in effect...
Culture, as he defines it, is being destroyed not by the atom bomb but by the fact that religious faith is declining more rapidly than ever before, that government planning and nursery schools are smashing the family group, that social barriers are being hurled down everywhere, and the last islands of regional diversity corrupted by mass communications and the passion for mass education...