Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the care of Dr. Kempner, recommended to him by his old friend, author John Kieran, and on a strict diet of honey and rice, Harlow showed signs of improvement between the 1946 and 1947 football seasons; but the strain of tutoring the Crimson last fall set Harlow's health back farther than ever and let to Dr. Kempner's ultimatum...
...strength of the film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...
...theme that nowhere permits the continuity to become naveled as did the narrative of the Italian underground. De Sica has limited himself to a small canvas in painting the destruction of the two young lives but has produced a masterpiece with deeper meaning. When Pasquale brings about his young friend's death, he does not receive punishment before the picture closes; he merely reacts as an individual upon whom the realization of great personal loss has fallen. Through the simple drama of these boys' lives is reflected the disillusionment that is Europe's tragedy today...
...incompatible with the past record of the Freshman Election Committee. Mr. Kimball was defeated for election to the Student Council last May by the voters of the Class of 1950. Why then should the Student Council appoint Mr. Kimball to its august body? Is it because he has a friend on the Council, or is it merely because the Council is so hard-pressed for workers that it will take on anybody so ambitions as to desire the post...
John Dewey, professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University, joined fellow philosophers Sunday in paying tribute to the late Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy Emeritus, who died last Tuesday. "The death of Alfred North Whitehead was a double less to me as to his multitude of friends and admirers. His gracious and radiant personality shone throughout all he said and did. In addition we have lost an intelligence that illuminated every subject it touched. He was a great friend and great philosopher because he was a great human being...