Word: og
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but because their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that...
...buildings aren't any bigger than those in Cambridge, and I like red brick. And Mory's is smaller and dirtier and darker and more crowded than Jini's or the OG. And anyone can sing "From the tables..." even if they aren't from Yale. And the parties aren't any gayer, and the martinis are just as bad, and the smoke is no bluer...
...work for their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees; office girls take our courses in typing, shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because he found that life too quiet after the corridors of the TIME & LIFE building...
...Eivind Berggrav was elevated to the diocese of Oslo, the primacy of Norway. Already widely known at home as editor of the magazine Kirke og Kultur (Church and Culture) and writer of a number of religious books in addition to the best-selling Spenningèns Land (an account of his life in the Arctic), he soon achieved world fame in the Universal Church movement. In 1938 he was elected president of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches...
Harvard is different in atmosphere, but more or less the same in education. There is still meat for students at the old College, and if you look hard, Mike's has a pinball machine, and so do and Dirty Mary, and then there's always the OG...