Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express my appreciation for the kind letters that students have sent to the CRIMSON and to me personally on the subject of the interruption in the last lecture of Social Relations lb. George C. Homans Associate Professor of Sociology
...what kind of a loose statement is that coming from a man named Deevey, and him a redhead, even though he is assistant professor of biology at Yale? The absence of snakes in Ireland, as anyone knows (whether their name just happens to be Kelly, O'Flaherty, Dunne or O'Rourke), is the direct outcome of the fact that 1,500 years ago the good St. Patrick himself stood on a hill in the Galty Mountains and ordered the vipers away...
...Turnips. The critics were kind, found some subtleties to admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...
...through a telescope focused on Stromboli. The longest story in the magazine was five sentences; most were told in one sentence that was merely a paraphrase of a headline. There were 25 departments (Science, Sports, Male & Female, Fashions, etc.). Among the biggest departments (four pages) was "Quick Predicts," a kind of Kiplinger letter in monosyllables...
...most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then he got an idea from St. Matthew ("I was a stranger, and ye took me in") for a new kind of church column: he decided to visit a different church every Sunday as an unannounced stranger, and tell Press readers about the reception...