Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some win elections with a confusing complex of support. Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, for example, seems to gather support not only from her CCA endorsement but from some labor groups, women's groups, and "the Jewish vote." And Councillors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 and Edward A. Crane '35, both Harvardtrained lawyers and strong CCA supporters, seem to get much backing from Irish and Italian people who care little for CCA programs. In fact, one of the few factors which seem to have little influence on the election is party affiliation: there is only one registered Republican, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler...
...more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
...described; he only suspects that his crime is "opacity"-that stubborn, unknowing refusal to bare his soul which has always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov...