Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perkins went ice skating together on the frozen Charles. Gilmore trod upon thin ice. Waist-level and below, in fact, his usual composure was seriously threatened. But from the waist up, Myron Gilmore was still unruffled. Characteristically, he was able to rise above most of the crisis. He had fallen only halfway through...
...nightly sexual tragicomedy would end: "Fyodor Mikhailovich again turned everything into a joke and, as he was leaving me, said that it was humiliating for him to leave me like that (this was at 1 in the morning; I was lying undressed in bed). 'For Russians have never fallen back...
...state of poetry has fallen alarmingly in the last two centuries Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, declared in his opening lecture last night in New Lecture Hall...
Ballads, Muir said, were the traditional folk poetry and it was through this form that the poet and his community could most closely join to create new works or alter existing ones. But even the ballad has fallen victim to contemporary tastes which have been dulled by movies, the radio, and the press...
Cyrus Harvey '47, and Bryant Halliday '49, co-proprietors of the Brattle applied in February of last year for the usual license, in order to show Miss Julie, a film based on Stindberg's play about a fallen woman. The Cambridge city manager, who issued one of the permits, gave them no trouble; but the State Commissioner of Public Safety turned their application down. He felt he could not approve the picture after just a few cuts because the central theme of the film was an illicit love affair...