Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of Mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
...fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper is Joseph Dallet as a slightly tipsy slave. Brooks Emmons and Dorothes Reynolds do exceedingly well as women who look and act as if they knew what life were all about...
...naval, written anonymously in 1876 and titled "Student Life at Harvard," described the aspect of these gladiators flowers. As time passed, these contents "The Class, before so gentlemanly in appearance, stood transformed into a rabble of rowdyish and seedy-looking characters." Lowell agreed with this descriptive, remarking that "the Senior class are distinguished by the various shapes of eccentric rim displayed in their hats...
Ending with Sousa's "The Thunderer," the Band put life into a tune that is constantly mauled by grade school groups. Fine tempo and a well-controlled brass section brought out the better parts of Sousa...
...Peter Prins 1G, has been the first to admit that it very often does resemble a "creative minority" in the Toynbean sense. We are hot unaware of the disadvantages of this role, however, but find it forced upon us by the lack of cohesiveness in graduate life...