Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Judith Yaeger, winner of the Pierian Sodality's annual concerto contest, soloed in the Schumann Concerto. The Radcliffe Senior started shakily, but after she regained her composure in the middle of the first movement, she made the old warhorse kick its heels. Purists may object to the more liberties she took with the score; but after hearing her coquettish interpretation of the second movement, I cast my vote for impurity...
...went to Moscow. That was back in 1946. Last week Tito was off again, in a different direction. No longer Communism's leading non-Russian, but now the world's leading anti-Russian Communist, he was going to London to see the Queen and her ministers. Object: a fuller partnership with the West...
...Soviet representative [Vishinsky] said to me, 'You are going to lose Asia anyway.' That astounding remark made me realize how far apart his view of humanity is from mine. The U.S. is not trying to get Asia. We have never thought of Asia as some sort of object inhabited by slaves which was to be won or lost by outsiders...
...object to flying in such weather? "I am eager to go. There's nothing more fascinating than the other side of the clouds; the far side is intensely beautiful." His philosophy? "I'll give you quite a chunk of my philosophy in just seven words: 'The wolf is always at the door.' There's no use killing any of them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when...
...seems you object to the ROTC "bribing" students to support the blood drive in order to promote "the greater glory of ROTC." May I point out that the student Chairman of the Harvard Blood Drive contacted the ROTC and asked for help. It was at his suggestion that merits were to be given for blood donating...