Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the College scene has gone much of the educational value of the Houses. Once upon a time a student had a tutor in his own House, with whom he could talk and cat on an informal basis from time to time. The tutee also came to know his fellow tutees, and with them and with his tutor a relationship approaching the legendary breakfast table education was established. Two purposes were served by this system. The students were attracted to the House and also to its less intellectual activities. And the student learned a good deal more than he could...
...setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action committees, the S.E.D. [meaning the German Communist...
...Sense of Sin. Los Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...left the University of Virginia in disgrace after Allan refused to pay his school bills and gambling debts of reportedly $2,500. He published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
...became an invalid at 19 and died at 24. Until his death at 40, Poe's life had an appalling consistency of trouble-brief periods of success followed by long years of misery, quarrels with one after another of his backers, tigerlike leaps on his fellow poets for plagiarism, mud-slinging campaigns with rival editors. He drank, and at times took opium, stopped drinking whenever his work went well. Yet in each serious battle his enemies raked up the old stories, and in these letters Poe is constantly admitting his guilt and explaining that he has reformed...