Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...logic, it is in the environment's response to changes of mood. When Colin feels ready to fall in love, doors begin to close "with the sound of a kiss on a bare shoulder," and the air turns sultry. This environmental adaptability is all very well in the first half of the book, when Colin's main preoccupations are his love for Chloe, for Duke Ellington's music, and for the gastronomical delights concocted by his cook. But when Chloe falls fatally ill the atmosphere of light and luxury changes. As he runs to her bedside his world literally constricts...
...group expects to get about 1000 more signatures since only half of the copies of the petition being circulated have been returned so far, Helen A. Green '69 said yesterday...
...this strange, poetic universe it becomes unforgettable. Vian's language evokes both sensuality and a kind of fragile tenderness; Chloe's skin is "amber-colored and as appetizing as marzipan," but she coughs "like a piece of silk tearing." This delicacy is poignant in the second half of the novel, as Chloe and Colin become the innocent victims of an inexplicable determinism for which no one will take responsibility. At Chloe's grotesque, horrifying funeral, Colin cross-examines Jesus...
...meantime, a million and a half person died. If we continue to do nothing, five million more persons may die before June. But we do not have to let this happen...
...hundred fifty-eight parents, representing almost half of Radcliffe juniors, attended the Weekend. In addition to the Saturday afternoon discussion, parents attended classes, met with Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, and heard Nathan Glazer, visiting professor of Education and Social Structure, Paul A. Freund Carl M. Loeb University professor, and Jerome S. Bruner, Professor of Psychology, speak after House dinners on Friday night...