Word: makes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been and is a demand for these houses because the neighborhood is known as one "ideal for bringing up children." We are happy with our new neighbors, not because they are Negro or white, but because they are intelligent, congenial, with a diversity of interests and occupations which would make them a welcome addition to any neighborhood...
Perhaps Santa ought to be left alone for a while, like a Passion Play one takes out of mothballs only every ten years or so. In the meantime, we can make do with Christmas trees and holly, turkeys, cranberry sauce and mistletoe (which is, thank goodness, only a plant). Then our days would be merry and bright, and all our Christmases, pristine white...
...name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
Typical of Amen's more genial work is To Wonder At, a color print depicting a pony-tailed little girl gazing in awe at a large bouquet. The flowers, which take up two-thirds of the picture, would make a tasteful composition standing by themselves. One's attention, however, is drawn to the pouting face which, well done though it is, reminds one of something from a comic strip. Eyes of Wonder portrays a very similar little girl, this time showing her in full face and emphasizing her large, dark and somewhat watery eyes. As one prospective customer remarked...
...mailed a general letter to the family of each member in order to find out how much money it can collect from parents. Although it has not asked for a final financial commitment the Club wants to know two things: first, if the parents would permit their son to make the trip; and second, how much money they would consider contributing to cover expenses...