Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Music Hall last week looked like ordinary small-town kids about to see a western. They wore ankle socks and saddle shoes, sweat shirts outside their trousers, hair-ribbons, skull caps. But it was not a western they had come to see. Suddenly, some of them began to hum "Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!" In clear, young voices, the whole 5,000 took it up, and the auditorium was transformed into a meeting house...
...frontier has new sounds: the hum and roar and clatter of powerful machines; for the sagebrush country around
...Paris, over the hum of street traffic, a grinning gendarme yelled to a friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming...
...Illinois festival is just one of the new ideas that have been making the university hum since 1946. The man behind the hum is President George D. (for Dinsmore) Stoddard...
...clock: after a leisurely breakfast, you can be stimulated by Thornton Wilder, who is giving the second half of Humanities 2 in Sanders Theatre. Wilder, who is a renowned early breakfaster, should be in fine form by ten. Professor Levin, who used to give Hum. 2b, can be found at this hour in Harvard 4, lecturing on Proust, Joyce, and Mann in Comp. Lit. 162. You'll need a knowledge of either French or German for this one. People more addicted to the Social Sciences might well check in at Mallinckrodt MB-9 for Fainsod's lectures on Soviet Government...