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...time short-time student propose Ralph Bunche. I know it's a forlorn hope. He is the most qualified by far of all the rumored appointees, but he'd hardly do for dinner at the Union League Club or the Harvard Club, and some alumni in Skunk Hollow. Mississippi might not like him. And, after all, that's what counts...
...poetry of the romantic era, Dubos & Dubos find revealing details of TB's "psychic effects, its influence on behavior and tastes." The ideal of feminine beauty, which the white plague made current, was epitomized by Dumas fils (mourning an ex-mistress) in La Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron...
...back to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,where he pitched camp in the jungle near Palenque. With Assistant César Saenz he descended the 59 steps to the altar room. Carefully the diggers drilled a hole in the side of the stone block. As Dr. Ruz suspected, it was hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked at the jacks. By morning they had raised the slab some two feet, only to find another lid fitted flush...
...back-bench Tories, suddenly nourished a nail-spiked cosh. "It is not in order to bring an offensive weapon into the House," boomed the Speaker. "Take it out! Take it out!" shouted Labor members. But Smithers' cosh proved to be a child's toy made of hollow rubber. Said Smithers: "It is a sham, but by filling it with sand it can be made into a lethal weapon." Smithers asked for a ban on coshes. "The increase in violence," he said, "is the direct result of six years of Socialist and materialist philosophy in action. All moral standards...
...enough, some of the protesters were Harvard students themselves, fearful of their fellow students' reaction. Their fear betokens a strange lack of faith in the College's brand of liberal education. Evidently, they believe that the tolerance gained through constant association with Negroes in classes, dormitories, and athletics is hollow and dry. Apparently they think the views of a notoriously "liberal" faculty have had no influence. How else could one film, no matter how blatant its propaganda, effectively inject bigotry into the phlegmatically tolerant Harvard audience...