Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have referred to me as an "ex-convict" in an article written in reference to the Inter national Longshoremen's Association [TIME, Jan. 4, 1954]. I have never been convicted of any crime and resent your reference to me in this manner. It is incumbent upon publishers of magazines and newspapers to report true facts. I am sure that you will be glad to correct this grievous error...
...Freshman Advisers, like Departmental tutors, are in a unique position to remind students, on the part of the Faculty, that there is more to a Harvard education than so many hour examinations. But consideration for the many Freshmen I have not treated and shall not treat in the Lucullan manner your article implied requires me to explain publicity that, in my opinion, "lubrication" (as you put it) is not the only alternative to lucubration. Harlan P. Hanson, Director, Program of Advanced Standing
Views & Policies: Loves his job, and has turned down a better one (Defense) to keep it. Has outgrown, though he has not found it necessary to repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates...
Carter deliberately concentrates on originality instead of themes or ideas already proved. "You don't get any money from this profession anyway," he says in an assertive manner that conflicts with his shy appearance. "You might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music-anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...
...classical section was the eye-opener; it proved a smash hit and carried the show for a month-long run. Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps). But first prize went to a crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle...