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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone but the Communists and a few chronic dissidents had voted yes for De Gaulle. Yet it also seemed clear that the voters of France and of the overseas territories-now known as the Community, like Britain's Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote in a new constitution as to vote out an old. What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously...
...that has been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead...
Another dean says that "every college has to fight to destroy false public images" and regrets that the Lehigh football team is known in its conference as the "Engineers...
Other precious incidents come up during the fraternity hazing period, known to locals as "Greek Week." Under the editorial title "Boycott the Barbarians," the Brown and White had this to say to freshmen about amusing fraternity activities...
Munro was aware of this as he commented today, "Any one of the Little Three teams (Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams) is usually as strong as any of the Ivy squads." The Lord Jeffs feature what is known in soccer as a "fast break" attack with continual passing between the outsides across the entire breadth of the field. This type of play might easily wear the Crimson down, and with the varsity low in reserves, the fourth quarter could find Munro in real trouble...