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...sale of the MTA yards, the Memorial Drive underpasses, HSA scandals, general education discontent, parietal skirmishes, the football season,--here certainly is the basic foundation of Harvard history. Replete even with the class struggle between students and administration, each Class can possess only a frail superstructure of events which it can recall as truly...
...there are the unifying events whose experience the Class holds in common, the sense of Class is indeed a weak and frail thing. For the universe of Harvard is most intensely a club world, a drama world, an or-one of small worlds: a House world organization(the CRIMSON, WHRB) world, a library world, a political (the Young Republicans, the Young
...army outpost at Biar Bet, also occupied a ruined mud-walled fort called Kanjarkot in what India insists is its own territory. India and Pakistan each claimed to have inflicted at least 300 casualties on the other, and Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, looking far tougher than his frail figure indicates, threatened to invade the Pakistani side of the Rann. Both nations began talking of general mobilization...
...Beerbohm barely deserved, and did not desire, a place in English literature. His was an ephemeral talent, applied to composition so frail that the winds of time have blown most of his work away. The literate Beerbohm is remembered chiefly for Zuleika Dobson, his comic novel of Oxford, and his graceful caricatures of the leading figures of his day. Sir Max was also one of the most delightful human beings who ever lived: tolerant, unassuming, a witty conversationalist, unfailingly kind. To know Max was to cherish him, and as a consequence, his friends and admirers have converted his niche into...
Circle of Love. The doe-eyed young wife (Jane Fonda) glances at the would-be lover who has lured her to his flat. "Alfred, if you really love me, you won't keep me here," she murmurs, but her look belies her words. With frail remonstrations, she has already removed her hat, veil and gloves. Only moments remain until everything else comes...