Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, last week, large numbers of Columbia students attended four-hour "make-up" lectures and studied for examinations, even though "formal classes" were cancelled over a week ago. Explained one student: "A 'pass" isn't going to get me into Med School...
...that isn't daunting enough, a glance back over the record of previous directors would sober the most sanguine candidate. In 1964, Herbert von Karajan quit in a huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left...
Streamlined it isn't. "It looks," observed the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes." But never mind. The Cubicar, an almost perfectly cubic car manufactured by Britain's Universal Power Drives Ltd., could well become the commuter car of the future. In the age of the traffic jam, when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort...
Every morning now when I wake up I have to run through the whole thing in my mind. I have to do that because I wake up in a familiar place that isn't what it was. I wake up and I see blue coats and brass buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening...
...then I may, they say, be causing a right wing reaction and hurting the cause. Certainly it isn't conscionable to hold Coleman captive. But attention is being gotten. Steps will be taken in one direction or another. The polls will fluctuate and the market quiver. Our being here is the cause of an effect. We're trying to make it Good; I don't know what else to say or do. That is, I have no further statement to make at this time, gentlemen...