Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition states: "In view of the facts that Granville Hicks has smply demonstrated his distinction as a critic and teacher, that he has contributed all this year to the curricular and extra-curricular life of Harvard and that he represents a serious critical point of view not represented elsewhere in the Harvard community, we, students and officers of Harvard University, without necessarily subscribing to his political philosophy, petition that he be seriously considered for any suitable teaching appointment available at Harvard in the fields in which he is trained, and that, if no such appointments are available, the possibilities...
...difficult task of brushing aside the veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every other course in the college. During and after the war, it became the fashion to concentrate in English, doubtless because it offered an escape from everyday life; and as a result, as many as 27 per cent of the student body flocked into that department. Only temporarily snowed under, Economics enjoyed a renaissance in the years of the depression, and today is again the most popular field in the college...
Clifton Webb carries off the acting honors in his portrayal of John Worthing, who leads a double life as a city rake and grave country gentleman. As the sarcastic and mercenary old snob, Lady Bracknell, Estelle Winwood gives her usual competent performance. Hope Williams is excellent in a rather slim and thankless part...
...allure of a "name" band; a week end of frolic with the one girl, enticed from afar by the promise of Jimmy Dorsey or Benny Goodman; the opportunity for a party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...