Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David M. Perlmutter '59, Council secretary, pointed out that the executive committee's report was based on a comprehensive study made last year by the tutorial committee. "We don't know what the students want," he added...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, has been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize for 1957 by the Society of American Historians for his book, The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933. The book is the first of a projected series called The Age of Roosevelt...
...president of the Harvard Opera Guild, Lewis M. Steel '58, agreed with Stinson's staging proposals, but added that an "orchestra pit, a turntable stage, and fine acoustics" were necessary to produce opera successfully...
...opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover, the notorious M. de Voltaire. When a bell announced suppertime, the company gathered in a dining room devoid of servants, ate "exquisite" food and wine that was pushed into the room through a hatch. At the ringing of another bell, "moral and philosophical readings" began, continuing until another bell sent everyone...
Florabelle bared her tooth and cackled up at him: "Lord, Sugar," she said, "it ain't none of that. It's that I'm one-tenth Negro...