Word: illness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen Eugene Kline '50, of Atlanta Georgia, and Lowell House; Thomas Stewart James '52, of Chicago and Grays Hall; and Charles Lee Nutt Ill, '50, of Garden City, Long Island, New York, and Lowell House...
Although some of those present acknowledged the existence of "Russian expansionism," American "imperialism" was branded as the main force driving nations towards World War Ill...
...that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...
...real danger, the panel implied, was not so much in frankly technical schools, which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives...
...something of an art. Then, as now, porcelains were valued more for their sentimental qualities than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small...