Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making a czar out of anybody! Usually, they have always tried to do it about a military man. Now they found that wasn't very profitable because . . . they couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar...
...money freely, but in unexpected places; they cleaned out all stocks of gabardine from one department store, all the nylon fur from another. They loaded up on lingerie and stockings and perfumes-for the girls back home; for themselves, they bought shirts, shorts and ties-in any color, curiously, except red. A surprising haul was made by Wellington's druggists, for the Red sailors swept the shelves bare of laxatives, and even bought up patent medicine that had been gathering dust for years. At week's end the Russians went back to their ships laden like housewives returning...
...Gioconda Smile, Huxley's most famous story, is the best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman...
...will face both the MIT second boat and the Brown varsity. The first and second Freshman boats will take on their Tech counterparts. Brown claimed that the Freshman first boat would be as good as last year's crew which lost only in the EARC, except for the fact that it is about two weeks behind schedule...
Katherine Cornell, as the royal mother-by-adoption of Moses, fulfills a stately role solidly. She moves very little--except her enormous eyelids--but very skillfully, and she delivers some of the play's few poetic lines--"We all belong to Egypt.../ Our lives to on the loom/And the land weaves...