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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propaganda about school traditions and regulations. She is introduced to her "big sister," who is her guide through the first hectic weeks of orientation and organization. The freshman almost unanimously praised the big sister system. All four classes are housed in the dormitories and the girls approve of this idea, as it gives the freshmen a chance to "learn all about the school." As one student put it, "It gives more of an overall5CRIMSONHarry S. ParkerThis future "uncommon woman" is enjoying the early October sun in the small formal garden outside the ivy-covered walls of Mary Lyon Hall, which...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Mt. Holyoke and the 'Uncommon Woman' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...these two devices seems to indicate that the writer did not have the skill or the patience to develop his protagonist without artificially bisecting him into two idea-vehicles. Bogard loses depth and reality as a college student and becomes a clumsy allegorical figure in a twentieth-century morality play...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...Tibetan, yab is an honorific for father and yum for mother, signifying the spiritual idea of cosmic polarity much as the principles of yang and yin do in Chinese thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yabyum Kid | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Perkins commended the students who developed the idea for the House production. "They have a very well-thought out plan," he stated. On the opening evening of the production, Lowell House members and their dates will be admitted free of charge. On the other four evenings of the plays run, an admission fee of $1.50 will be charged...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Ford Money May Finance Lowell Show | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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