Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it was over the Old Guard snorted that the liberals, for all their headline making, had gained nothing that they could not have got in a quiet, back-room talk. The liberals retorted that all they really wanted-besides Kuchel's victory -was headline recognition that they, too...
But what Anastas Mikoyan had to say boiled down to nothing. To prove it, the Kremlin at week's end put out a 21-page draft treaty proposing that 30 nations should get together to sign a German peace treaty based in part upon 1) withdrawal of Western Germany...
Bender explained that he has "a basic objection to something like Dudley House, which is a group of students sequestered on the basis of geography and financial need, unlike the careful cross-section in each residential House." Building a new center, he indicated, would do nothing to solve this problem...
The designs of Audry Cruddas, for one thing, are nothing if not stylish. Her costumes (lots of trim uniforms) are more or less Edwardian, which is the fashionable period nowadays for doing sixteenth century drama. Her sets are attractively simple: the throne room is two chairs and a scarlet canopy...
"Why go to the West Coast for applicants," he asked, "when there are plenty of local boys, willing and able to do Harvard work?" Nothing that "there are many students in this area who are superior to our present marginal students," he explained that many of these boys are "scared...