Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Buck, the difficulty lies in trying to find a solution which will protect Harvard students without inconveniencing them...
...rural Greek village under Turkish domination, a town which has chosen from its populace a cast for the septennial Passion play: a Jesus, and a Peter, James, John, Judas and Mary Magdelan. The play itself never gets produced, but the characters, from the moments they are chosen, find themselves beginning to play their roles in real life...
...looking at his urban, liberal, Freudian, cultural (if not always cultured), ostentatiously enlightened milieu, he is looking at other things from its viewpoint. Anyone who belongs to this milieu, or who can temporarily or permanently assimilate into it (which is easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down. For any outsiders doing research on the attributes and attitudes of this group, Mr. Feiffer's two-volume oeuvre will be a necessity, almost a guidebook...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
...especially encouraging note for the Crimson was Boulris' fine play at third base, where Shepard has been hard pressed to find an adequate fielder. Boulris also collected two hits, as did Ravenel, who broke out of a frustrating post-spring trip slump...