Word: manhoods
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Four House Dance Committee Chairmen last night blasted the Radcliffe Social Committee's plan for a Christmas Formal with stags invited, terming the plan an insult to undergraduate manhood...
...away from home, and for some reason--perhaps because the bank was shut, or because he was hungry, tired, and lonely--he had come back, but their protest remained to distinguish them from all the others who had never run away. It was the real sign of their manhood. I never ran away after that. I never felt I needed...
...stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull calf, Lett's uncluttered sense of scene and even-paced storytelling give the book strength and fascination...
...shame which the innocent boys were taught to feel by presumably well-meaning friends and relatives never quite wore off. The elder son Cyril got himself killed in World War I in a deliberate effort to prove his manhood and expiate his father's crime. For close to half a century, the shy and sensitive younger son Vyvyan kept the secret of his past hidden in a life of semi-retirement and seclusion. Last week, in a biography published in England,* 68-year-old Vyvyan, whose last name was changed to Holland, told what it was like to spend...
...years, as he watched his 40-odd sons (the exact number has never been reliably checked) grow to strapping manhood, Saudi Arabia's wily and sentimental old King Ibn Saud cherished a wish-to unite one of them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...