Word: ferrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman was, or Max Keezer? My God, there are people here now who think that Winthrop House is "one of them there Harvard Clubs...
Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...
...occasion for surprise. German by birth, Swiss by choice, sturdy, boyish Adolf Busch has long plied his art in the U.S., giving music performances that highlighted the music, not the performances. Busch prefers his music straight, as the composer wrote it, hence scorns transcriptions, distrusts editions, tries to ferret out original manuscripts whenever possible...
...pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...
...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...