Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll, we feel a compulsion to press for an extension on Friday evenings," Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61, chairman of the Council Committee on Parietal Hours, stated yesterday. He indicated that the polls would be forwarded to the House Masters "as an indictor of student feeling on the matter...
...Beatland (On The Road is the bible of this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious, boring, and obnoxious...
...Here is a story of a strange world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever...
Bardeen added that he was anxious to clear the matter with Dean Watson. Watson, who will make any decision, was unavailable for comment last night. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and advisor to the HLU, said yesterday that the wording should be interpreted by the Dean's office...
...Puntila's red-headed daughter, the outlook seems positively sunny--until Brecht's characteristic bitterness clamps down again and the hired man takes to the road, convinced that Puntila's intermittent decency cannot be relied on, and that the daughter could not live a proletarian's life no matter how much she wanted his proletarian body...