Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody who feared that Cornell was another Virginia would change his mind after watching practice these last two days. In that space of time the Varsity has undergone more than three hours of the most brutal contact work seen (or heard) in this neighborhood for some time...
...Fraternity Row is a neighborhood of teen-age Little Scorpions Clubs, each with its secret grip, passwords and recognition signals. It may well be that all fraternities are using the same grip without knowing it, but . . . secrets of this caliber . . . can never be divulged, let alone compared...
...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...
Shakespeare's Audience. It is not likely that Shakespeare will ever again reach the lusty, semiliterate mass audience for which he wrote; today's equivalent fills the neighborhood movie houses. Henry V was seen by an estimated 5% of the people in each U.S. city where it was shown (as against a rough 30-40% who see the average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself...
Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, young Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the contentedly unfit.* In 1920, in the castle of Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor, Hahn took the Prince's son and three neighborhood children as his first pupils. By the time Hitler forced him into exile...