Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The House system was supposed to fill this gap and in prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat...
Then, before Britain's Royal Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (who had traveled from London for the occasion) and 150,000 of Ceylon's six million-odd Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the...
With the pomp and panoply of a coronation, socialist Venezuela this week inaugurated a President, Novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire, grand old (63) man of his country's struggle for freedom,* became its first popularly elected chief executive. The Venezolanos, with a feeling that they were writing history...
Two other newsworthy hats got together when Eleanor Roosevelt (in a small, fussy one) and Bethune-Cookman College's Mary McLeod Bethune (in a forthright, big one) put their heads together over tea in Manhattan (see cut). Occasion: a fund-raising drive for a rural school for wayward boys...
There was a good deal of rustic rostrum-thumping about the specter of "red fascism" as a world menace, something you'd expect to hear just about anywhere except in Littauer. But between these blasts he made careful and professorial defenses of the position of the United States. In the...