Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said "Mr. Pompeo had better get over here before we wake up some morning and find out in the local press that the land grab has gone through...
...always difficult to prove the need for another undergraduate course of instruction. As the Edsel recently proved, the product often creates the market, not the reverse. Nevertheless, many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...
...typical of Harvard's attitude toward other colleges, and the belief that there are no other legitimate types of intellectual investigation than those used here. Academic pre-eminence is interpreted not necessarily as knowing it all, but at least as possessing the best, perhaps the only methods to find...
...countries have been thoroughly pawed over by tourists and travel writers. Searching for a virgin field, Author-Traveler John Sack turned to 13 of the smallest and least important nations, seminations and oddball principalities he could find, from seagirt Lundy (pop. 21), ten miles off the coast of an indifferent England, to the Middle Eastern principality of Swat (pop. 518,600), whose wily Wali encourages the tourist trade, according to Sack, by personally inspecting the toilet drains in his nation's only hotel...
...meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described as crackajack, but it should not drive them to chugalug...