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...French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking for a home are left to grapple with les corbeaux (the ravens), the landlords; or they must...
...rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human nature...
...that House representation is unimportant for the election, the ultimate duties of the committee being directed to service and activities for the whole class, not for individual Houses. Leading this side, John Merrifield '55 claimed the basic criterion for election to such an honorary committee was being the "biggest lump of prestige...
...Judy, she has never sung better. Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin have given her six good songs-among them one unforgettable lump in the throat, The Man That Got Away. Her big, dark voice sobs sighs, sulks and socks them out like a cross between Tara's harp and the late Bessie Smith...
...physic was a stiff dose of merger. The bailey Plan was to lump together as many of the book and speciment collections as possible, selling off duplicates. It also looked to centralization, to splitting the field into two Areas, each with a chairman, presided over by a Biological Council. The Arboretum fell on both sides of the dividing line: the living collections were to go into one Area, and all research dependent on preserved matter would go into the other. The herbarium and library were slated to be moved to Cambridge...