Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch and airy style but gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party...
Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...
...cold light of these figures, many questions arise. Were heart transplants begun prematurely? Have there been too many? Or too few? Did the mere existence of the procedure arouse false hope in patients for whom no donor heart could be found? Is it better to die after long hospitalization and distressing drug treatment, with a transplanted heart, than to die a little earlier with one's natural, inborn heart? What hope does the immediate future offer for longer and healthier survival...
...circumstance, the presence of an avowedly militaristic organization is prima facie an affront to the university. Given the current theory and practice of American foreign policy, it seems likely that one primary use of American military officers will be to prosecute more Vietnams and Dominican Republics. In this light, the militarism of the ROTC is particularly noxious. Furthermore, the ROTC, by furnishing preferential rank to college graduates, intensifies an undemocratic situation which already confronts this university...
...just exactly what it was that I was doing. I realized that I felt almost like a missionary or someone from the Salvation Army. It was as if 1000 angels of peace were being visited upon New Haven to calm the seething inhabitants and to show the benighted the light of coeducational normalcy and tranquility. The ever-present smiles on the faces of the girls were almost beatific, surely maternal, and terribly altruistic. Reverend Coffin said that Coeducation Week was an effort to "reincarnate communities--to transform them from cold routinized bureaucracy into a warm organic existence." We were helping...