Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Night of the Hunter, this second novel is set in the bottomland of the Ohio in the latter half of the nineteenth century--specifically the years 1861-1865. However, although the Civil War figures prominently in the story, A Dream of Kings cannot rightfully be labeled an historical novel, and tossed thus cursorily on the exer-growing heap of Civil War fictions...
...that the revision would not involve an actual deferment of fathers, such as existed until the summer of 1953. Under the new plan draft boards would taken younger men and husbands without children before they took fathers and men over 26, but they would still take men in the latter categories eventually, the spokesman explained...
Berlin-born George Grosz, 62, is no newcomer to scenes of horror. It has saturated his work, from his earliest sketches of World War I's mutilated and dead to such latter-day oils as The Pit (opposite), done in 1946 and now a public favorite in the Wichita (Kans.) Art Museum. A Little Yes and a Big No, the title of Grosz's autobiography, sums up his attitude to life. But though his little yes in the years since 1932, when he came to the U.S., has produced some pleasant, classic nudes and some sunlit passages...
...this latter stand which had met with most vehement opposition in the pages of the Yale Alumni Magazine. Outspokesman for the opposition was Jack B. Schmetterer '52, who charged that sons of alumni were admitted without competing and were often unable to maintain their positions...
...very tired." But Perkins and his colleagues cannot complain that they are the first Harvard administrators to face this problem. Parietal rules, if not as old as the College itself, date back at least to the time when Harvard students first took an interest in young women. (This latter date seems to have succeeded the College's founding by more than a century). Restrictions were a definite necessity by 1770, when, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, it was reported that "2 women of ill fame" had "spent the night in a certain college chamber...