Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Flood's fantasy is a much more skillful job. Starting with an item in the CRIMSON'S Notice Column, which threatens absentee glee club members with drastic action," he sees a glee club police carrying off a negligent member. Flood has a talent for picturing undergraduates wryly. For this reason a Harvard audience ought to enjoy the story...
This was a considerable surrender on Item 1; seemingly it involved abandonment by the U.N. of tens of thousands of South Koreans now in Communist hands. It was also a complete surrender on Item 3. The deal was presented as a "final" take-it-or-leave-it package offer. But the Reds soon made it clear that package deals are unknown in the Communist supermarket. They insisted that the U.N. should also deliver the 100,000 Chinese and Korean prisoners who have declared that they will fight against repatriation. Since this is clearly out of the question, the talks bogged...
Mentioning, the second item of the bill of particulars delivered to Struik at the time of his attempt to quash the indictment against him--an item which says that Struik planned to advocate the overthrow of the government--Mather cracked. "It is so easy for some to know the inner workings of the minds of others. There is a striking contrast between the indictment of a professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. and of an official of the Communist party...
...patriotism, strictly patriotism," said a Taft supporter as he distributed publicity handouts, "no Political about it." Whether the speakers heard this assertion or not, their speeches appeared to be in strict accordance with it. The ceremonies officially began with a prayer for the maintenance of our liberties. The next item was a patriotic song. The singer rose to the microphones, peering uncertainly at the band members who were shuffling their sheets of music frantically. Rather raggedly the notes poured forth, the singer usually a measure or two behind the band. Nobody could hear him anyway...
...little item on the Sarah Lawrence application seems glaringly out of place, in the light of avowed policy. It requires the names, occupation, and education of a girl's grandparents. Admissions director, Marie Bovard explains this with the remark: "If a girl's grandparents have had no education, then all the more power to her." But this and the statement that a good looking girl has a better chance for admission are the condemnable parts of Sarah Lawrence's policy...