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...relatively short time on the University scene, the local AVC chapter led a hectic life, eventually rising to a position of tremendous influence. It fought for cheap housing projects, opposed loyalty oaths, and organized a political action school...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: College AVC Chapter Spent Stormy Half-Decade as Crusader, Reformer | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

...that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...found more things to their liking than in recent shows, thanks to some of the invitations extended by the chairman of this year's painting jury, popular Leon Kroll. The moderns predominated in both painting and sculpture, but in awarding the top prizes the judges ignored the more hectic advance guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia Honors | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Although Nate Corning played a fine game himself in the Crimson nets, and although Harvard showed great fight--especially in the hectic last period--the Tigers were able to turn a couple of breaks into scores, and managed to hang on thereafter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Favored Over Tech Tonight Despite Tiger Loss | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Fenton, with 53 saves, 21 in the hectic first period, starred for the Saint Markers. Center John Hamlen got their only goal, on a pretty breakaway shot, at 16:00 of the second period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Skaters Rip St. Mark's | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

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