Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such is my faith in Harvard. But I am not alone in my adoration for America's oldest college. One member of an English class, venting her enthusiasm for Harvard, remarked, "I just can't get the smile off my face. I try to close my mouth, but it breaks with a smile." Upon querying another summer student as to whether or not she was a regular member of the Harvard family, I received the prompt and concise reply, "No, I wish I were...
...work is too well known to warrant much comment. It is, of course, the last and subtlest of the Bard's true comedies--a study of (1) unrequited lovers (in which, by rare exception, young love is not opposed by an elder generation), and of (2) poseurs. Every member of the personae is a persona in the old Latin sense of a mask-wearer; and the play is, in a way, an Elizabethan counterpart of today's best-seller, The Status Seekers...
...being the U.N., staff economists find it hard to question the word of member governments, and even harder to check up on nonmember Peking. Western observers clustered in Hong Kong, however, were frankly skeptical of the U.N. findings. All along they were suspicious of Peking's 1958 claims and even more leery of Peking's blithe boast that in 1959 production would go up another 40%. Red China's government is now reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai...
...four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The incredible biography of multi-phrenic Fred Demara Jr., who has been a Navy surgeon, teacher, prison warden, and a member of half a dozen religious orders...