Word: gunter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...campus string quartet is not in session, one simply switches on the hifi. But in general, the thing to be, on the subject of art-or on any subject, for that matter-is casual. "Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic," says Philosophy Major Peter Gunter of the University of Texas, "thumbs down. Don't ever stand up and pound your fist about anything, because that is sort of childish...
...Gunter feels Berlin students and teachers, since their university is practically a living protest against Communism, tend to form the most democratic academic body in West Germany. Fraternities and dueling societies, long the stronghold of nationalistic, anti-semitic, and aristocratic traditions, exert almost no influence on the Berlin campus. Of the few which exist despite non-recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued...
Harvard and the Free University have maintained an especially close relationship through the medium of their respective student governments. Gunter's present scholarship, as well as one to be granted a Free University student next year, is financed by the Harvard Student Council from unallocated Combined Charities funds. The Free University faculty and student government, in return, have announced a scholarship for a Harvard student...
...spite of some difficulty in adjusting to a different academic and social environment, Gunter has enjoyed Harvard immensely. The faculty lives up to its international prestige, and although the students are somewhat reserved, he finds them interesting company. Radcliffe girls, Gunter notes, equal the Berlin female students in both charm and prodigious note-taking. There is one element, however, of his Berlin life which Gunter misses with an indefineable longing--the student-frequented bars and coffee houses. "I would have to be a poet to describe this difference," he states. "There is no comparison between a German tavern and Cronin...