Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years that followed she devoted herself in every way possible to ending the feelings of over-ripe nationalism and aggressiveness that had torn her country and sent her son to an early death. Though she repudiated her son's nationalistic philosophy she loved him deeply, and we may gather that he was the inspiration for much of her work if not for the famous Death series done later in her life. As she wrote in 1916 "Made a drawing: the mother letting her dead son into her arms. I might make a hundred such drawings...
Each Monday night eighteen funny men and a CRIMSON correspondent gather in Phillips Brooks House to settle the fate of the undergraduate body, and incidentally of the $6000 or so he has contributed to them...
Midway in a politics-spiked press conference last week, President Eisenhower caught a question that he must often have asked himself:. "What do you think are the real issues that are going to settle this election?" The President paused to gather thought, crossed his arms over his chest, then spelled out the fundamental issue: Eisenhower Republicanism...
...reminded by Stevenson's speeches of the oldtime patent medicine man who used to drive into a town, gather a crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir...
Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...