Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having read the CRIMSON editorial about the subject of non-honors tutorial (CRIMSON, Feb. 18), I think it is time that I express myself on the subject of history tutorial for sophomores. As it stands now sophomore tutorial in history is easily the equivalent of a fifth course, and therefore one should get a full course credit for it. One not only has to read a good, solid 200 pages or more for each 2 hour fortnightly session, but one has also to write 6,000 words in essays. At least one of these essays is on reading in addition...
Indian public opinion, long nearly as hostile as the Roman Catholic Church to contraceptive measures, seems to be veering about. The newspaper Indian Express editorialized that it was time to recognize that even Mahatma Gandhi, who also opposed birth control, was not infallible: "As in some other matters where the Mahatma's outlook was rigid and doctrinaire, time, along with an oppressive sense of the realities, has induced a change." A fervent Gandhian disciple, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru added his persuasive voice by acknowledging that "a tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting...
Anne Edwards remembers well the counsel an editor gave her in 1947 when she began her column for the London Daily Express: "Write it so that every woman will say, 'What a bitch Anne Edwards is.' " For the next dozen years, blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once...
...ruckus began four years ago when acerbic John Gordon, 68, chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy, pronounced it "about the filthiest book I've ever read...
...this time (he was 16) Rothstein had won the respect and almost the affection of Tammany Hall's East Side boss, "Big Tim" Sullivan. Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was later to express so clearly: "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best...