Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffering. I crack too quickly under the stress of it. I give up and I go away from what is hurting me. I don't want a life of continual fighting. I have a longing for peace. I wish I had more fight, but when I fight I lose my work -the feeling goes...
...Edmund Wilson wrote a famous essay in which he proved that Kipling waved the flag because of something nasty he saw in the woodshed. Kipling's latest and best biographer, British Author C. E. Carrington, mildly remarks of his subject that "to this day he makes men lose their tempers, a sure proof of his importance...
...principal events in the club's calendar had been an annual art exhibition staged with the motherly help of the Fogg Museum. When the group came to an end, so did the student exhibits. The Museum was not responsible for discontinuing the displays, nor did it lose interest, but it did not feel able or willing to sponsor them without organized student support...
Strangely enough, several of these characters lose part of their whiskey-soaked charm when they make the trip to Hollywood. Strangely, that is, because they are played by some of the best movie actors. Marlon Brando, as Sky Masterson, acts well enough, but his style seems cramped by the good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years...
...Mark Earle '59, chairman of this year's Union Committee, stated the need "to hold a 'blast-type' Smoker on an appropriate level, if necessary, in the dormitories." He added that, "This would cause the affair to lose its place as a class party...