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Despite the liberalized parietal rules, Harvard remained essentially an all-masculine place throughout the thirties. You were still a "fruitier" if you took a date to a football game instead of sitting with the boys in the cheering section. Radcliffe was still a much-maligned institution whose students were worth...
In the eyes of the Masters, however, the College is now in more danger than ever before of creeping feminism. The idea of ladies visiting in the Houses at 1 p.m., and thereby intruding on the rightful order of the day's activities "in the grown-up world", is still...
Peron's immature character was revealed in the events leading to the revolution. Hell-bent as he was, the love of a wise, well-educated, warm-hearted grown-up would have been a burden." --Editorial in the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon
And what did Frankie do while the wine of fame was flowing free? He bought a $250,000 home in Holmsby Hills, then a place in Palm Springs, for $162,000. He gave away gold Dunhill lighters ($250 apiece) by the gross. He threw champagne parties day after day. And...
In America, established at Princeton University as lecturer in the humanities, Mann carried on the fight against "Europe's Dark Age." He wrote polemic pamphlets, lectured with a certain dry sententiousness, and broadcast to Germany. His books were translated and were bestsellers. It did not seem to matter that...