Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lloyd C. Douglas story the suffering was zoned; it took place only in the very best shruburbs. In the Sartre resartion, Agony Alley is the main drag of an abominably filthy Mexican village. There, stretched flat on the floor boards of a squalid second-class bus, a European traveler (Andre Toffel) is dying of cerebrospinal meningitis. His wife (Michele Morgan) rushes out to look for the local doctor, but all she finds is a wambling wreck (Gerard Philipe) who has not dared to push a pill since his wife died in a childbirth he drunkenly mismanaged...
...Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life in your stride as the mechanics of the affair. Art and religion are the essences of being. Cultivate them - they are the payoff...
...Without the proper tie, the American intellectual is hard to identify. He does not gravitate to any one city, nor does he bear the stamp of any particular university or have his roots in any particular country. He may be a maverick genius like Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, or a state Supreme Court chief justice who, like New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, especially has devoted his talents to improving the courts. He may be doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what...
...gradually the activities of both the local Harvard Club and the old grads in it have changed considerably. Of course football coaches still speak and show films at many clubs each year. In 1954-55, however, head coach Lloyd Jordan addressed exactly four full-Club meetings. Meanwhile President Pusey made eleven such appearances, Professor Robert G. Albion seven, Professor Arthur E. Sutherland and Professor Perry Miller three each, and Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, took the year's honors with a grand total of fifteen speeches in Clubs as well-scattered as California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina...
...days earlier Lord Lloyd, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, had flown down to Aden to lay down a similar line. Greeted by a turbulent crowd that stoned his car, Lord Lloyd was firm. "I should like you to under stand," he told the Aden Legislative Counil, "that for the foreseeable future it would not be reasonable or sensible, or indeed in the interests of the colony's inhabitants, for them to aspire to any aim beyond that of a considerable degree of self-government . . . Her Majesty's government wish to make it clear that...