Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there's the "hardheaded" professor who says that our chances of surviving atomic war are pretty good but they would be even better if we attacked first. After all, Communism is our mortal enemy, right, so why not? The Russians might kill 60 million Americans, but we'll kill all of them...
...Sandors Theater at 8 p.m. tonight, William Alfred, professor of English, Robert Lowell '39, visiting professor of English, and Peter Taylor, visiting professor of English, will sing of things invisible to mortal sight. Sponsored by the Harvard Advocate...
...camera trains upon her transcendental face, eyes widened by arrested tears, tentative, reaching, wistful in her offerings of tender inadequacy. Here in her eyes, green eyes, the film unfolds. As she steals into his bedroom, only to resist him. As a pinch-lipped minister exhorts her for her mortal sin. As her father's drunken friends break into the adulterer's home. As he ignores her, making witty cocktail talk with superficial antagonists...
...merely mortal quarterbacks have made the Harvard secondary look bad even when it was at full strength. Now Dave Poe, number one right safety, will miss the Columbia game because of a concussion...
...confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...