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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist minority, ranging from tough factory hands to the mandarins of the Left Bank. In 1953, Vinogradov got a deliberately perfunctory greeting from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and some newsmen even ungenerously commented on the new ambassador's baggy appearance. But soon Paris began to take a second look...
...Christmas card. "That really bugged me," he recalls. "So the man says, 'Didn't you get the silver plate for Christmas?' I said no. When he gets back to Chicago, he phones me and says, 'Tommy, baby'-when they say 'baby,' look out, because they're dirty -'I'm sending you the silverware...
...rudely scratched inscription, figure or drawing found on rocks, walls, vases or other objects. It is derived from an Italian word for scratching (as in dogs with fleas). Some alumnus with a sense of humor thought that the fine new wall of the Quincy House dining room would look well with a rudely scratched inscription, and so he donated an undisclosed sum to purchase such a phenomenon...
Distaste for the graffito was graffito also expressed by Gordon G. Sampson '10, who offered his sympathy to the students forced to look at the mural while eating. "I'd like to see a record of indigestion cases among students eating here as compared to those eating elsewhere," he commented...
Author Langner's point is not that without clothes everyone would be too cold, too hot, or too bug-bitten to worry about such matters. Nor is it entirely that cops would look just like bookies-tattoos could take care of that. The author is a disciple of the late Psychologist Alfred Adler, inventor of the universal inferiority complex. It is Langner's extrapolation of the master's work that man clothes himself in order to feel superior-to the beasts by hiding his apparatus for procreation and excretion, and to other men by putting...