Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snaps exist because, deep in their hearts, the Faculty know that no liberal education is complete without a touch of the obscure. No one would take Arabic fairy tales or Etruscan technology if it were a History 1, but a taste of a scholarly field outside of the tritc, traditional subjects broadens a student as well as a university. And finally, at least one half-course out of thirty-two should be taken leisurely enough to be enjoyed...
...collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years ago the Institute sent a former Anthropology 1 section man to the Arctic region to see if he could exist on meat alone. While there he gathered together these mummies, which the "Meatpackers" later presented the Museum. Near this exhibit is a collection of Peruvian mummies. Most South Americans, including many of their prominent scientists, have the superstitution that these are embalmed, but the Museum has proved that the flesh...
President Roosevelt freed Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the C.P., from Atlanta penitentiary, after he had served 14 months of his four-year sentence for passport fraud. His release, explained the President, "would have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist" about Browder's having been persecuted for his political views. His Hitler-style mustache shaved off, thinner and greyer than when he started his term, the Kansas-born Communist leader hopped a train. Out of jail, out of a job, temporarily out of a cause, Browder went quietly home to Yonkers...
...breakfast they ate "smoked blue-fish,, bread crisp like a cracker, chocolate and fruit." The words "spiritual" and "immoral" did not exist in their vocabulary. In lieu of the chameleon word "love" they talked (just a bit tediously) of apia (sexual desire) and ania (a high regard "justifying the physical"). They had no formal philosophy, little interest in abstract thought; they practiced a hedonism tempered with kindliness...
...four pieces exist because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing...