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When the new building is finished, it will be one of the largest college bookstores in the country. A press release bragged that the "Coop's new book facility will be the largest in the nation," but Morrill said he "hadn't any figures off-hand to prove that...
...partners in the march simply as ' another activist group'; and in fact the press accounts largely ignored Tocsin's distinctive intentions. But the leaders--Goldmark included--were more discouraged by the reception given them at the State Department; they had been greeted with arguments based only on crude, off-hand anti-Communism, and they were appalled at the apparent unwillingness of Department officials to discuss Tocsin's critique thoughtfully...
...Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...
...most disturbing development as last week's Faculty of Arts and Sciences discussion on federal aid to the University was an off-hand comment by one professor as he left the meeting. "I'm glad I am in the social sciences where we don't have to worry about all this federal aid," he remarked half seriously. "We don't get any money from the government." Technically, he is wrong of course: of the government's money, the average social scientist gets $20,000, to the scientist's $40,000 and the humanist...
Beardsley's subject matter is original and imaginative enough, with its grotesque women, debauched men, cavorting gnomes and malevolent dwarfs, but his technical approach to these appears off-hand, and insufficiently inventive. Though no design in this show is incompetent, most lack the power they might have had if Beardsley had been a little more adventurous and a little less facile. Even the fine Ali Baba, the epitome of gourmanderie, bulging with corpulence, could have used a more radical treatment. As it is, one finds it a very excellent, but conventional, treatment of an extremely unconventional subject...