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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when anarchism and chaos hold considerable power in the world of painters, it hurts to have to blast a respect for tradition which most young painters of the day need desperately. But tradition can mean a road to liberation and it can also mean a confining dedication to antiquity...
Early reports of this penalty, leaked by a national news service, provoked some students to protest against what seemed a blanket prohibition of any class cuts or social activities in college rooms. But the Dean's statement made clear that general probation means only "immediate dismissal for further public misconducts of any kind," and the general undergraduate feeling was that it was just a strong warning to stay out of trouble. As one student put it "It really doesn't mean anything...
Moreover, while it is clear that the rooms emptied by the towers will not be filled by the normal flow of Freshmen unless '63 is radically larger than this year's Freshman class, this does not mean that the new space supplied by the Program should not be filled with undergraduates in the long run. Certainly a policy of expansion is implied in the Program's provision for three new Houses...
...Louis team," Straight Man Bud Abbott would say, "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third." Costello: "Do you know the fellows' names?" A: "Yes." C: "Well, then, who's playin' first?" A: "Yes." C: "I mean the fellow's name on first base." "Who," said Abbott, and they were off on a routine that became so famous that a plaque bearing the dialogue hangs in the baseball Hall of Fame. They performed it thousands of times (on several occasions at the special request of Franklin...
Frank: "I mean that you are a pure example as something discovered in Greece 2,000 years ago. There's freedom, a freshness, a spontaneity. Is it just a complete and artful acceptance of your own femininity? Let's say you've just come into a room...