Word: missed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe Administration made a place for a radical speaker during the ceremonies. The seniors then elected Miss Kauffer to give the speech which was prepared in advance and approved by the class...
...Miss Aylward lead a prayer and Miss Raudenbush read a section of Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, beginning with the lines: "Have no doubt it is fear in the land. For what can men do when so many are forced to become lawless...
...Love and Friendship, The Nowhere City and Imaginary Friends, Alison Lurie has earned a reputation as a dry satirist by preying on such vulnerable chickens as the academic life, extramarital affairs, Los Angeles as nightmare, sociology as pseudo science, and flying-saucer cultism as false religion. As a subject, Miss Lurie's minor lady writer is not exactly a meal-in-itself, although the author again demonstrates her special skill at killing swiftly, cleanly and coldbloodedly...
Part of the Yearbook's problem with student radicalism may be attributed to the traditional dilemma of sending the book to the printers when the year is only two-thirds done. Spring 1969 was a particularly unfortunate Spring to miss, and Three Thirty Three has rallied with a sixteen-page supplement on the occupation, bust, and strike. But the insensitivity is still evident. The Yearbook photographers are sensationally good on the dismay of the early-morning spectators at University Hall and the excitement of the crowd and participants at the first mass meeting. But they tell almost nothing about what...
Wilkie Collins, who regularly took what for others would have been lethal doses of laudanum, composed "a major piece of work," Miss Hayter admits, when he wrote The Moonstone-a Chinese box of a novel in which the actions of an opium-drugged man are described by an opium-using author. She points out, though, that Collins did not directly utilize his hallucinations. His forte-tight construction of narratives-was rare for a Victorian and hardly the sort of thing to be aided by drug taking. Quite the contrary...