Word: featherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommended charities are all "student-oriented with the exception of Red Feather," according to Edward M. Strasser '56, the other co-chairman. Besides Red Feather, the list includes: Phillips Brooks House, the World University Service, the Salzburg Seminar, American Friends Service Committee, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students...
Goody Knight had plans for every thing. He pushed the $1.2 billion state Feather River reclamation project, and he put out $150,000 for a study of smog. He was happy, and so were his staff mem bers: Goody, who used to keep them working far into the night, has been quitting at dinnertime since his recent marriage. His domestic bliss and political success are evident. He is on the friendliest terms with the state legislature, which is Republican-controlled. Goody Knight, rather than his fellow Californian, Vice President Dick Nixon, is likely to go to the 1956 G.O.P. Convention...
Splotched Fantasies. From that point forward, Klee produced a frosty torrent of little dream pictures (there are some 900 in U.S. collections alone). By catching his dreams on the wing, and being quite satisfied with just a feather, he was able to produce an almost endless variety. Some of his works resemble children's squiggles, others the splotched fantasies of the mad. Still others are made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures...
...Feather has been restored because the Committee "felt there were a large number of students, particularly non-resident graduate students and undergraduate commuters, who benefit directly or indirectly from its activities...
While adding Salzburg and Red Feather to the program, the committee dropped the Winant Volunteers Program from the list. This organization, a group of American students who spend the Summer working in London settlement houses, was dropped because of "the limited nature of its program...