Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...
...When Figueres took Cartago, the Government canceled the international plane flights and our last communications link was gone. A member of the rebel underground pressed a note into my sleeve promising uncensored use of Tropical Radio's transmitter at Cartago, Figueres' provisional capital. So I borrowed a jacket and a pair of hiking shoes and, with a Tropical Radio telegraph operator, lit out over the mountains for Cartago...
TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
...print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious humor Debussy invented a "Monsieur Croche" (Mr. Eighth Note) to do his arguing...
...French Academy got a note of praise from Pius XII, who wrote in French and gave the language a nod of approval in passing, for "its clarity, its precision, and its sense of distinction . . . the language of diplomacy and of abstract science ... of art, literature and poetry, the language of the spirit and of the heart...