Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation, meetings at which all outsiders, from Dean to doorman, are barred. Durant must accept the law as it comes down from the mountain and administer it for the mere...
...handsome men do not go to college." Not only Radcliffe, 800 strong, but all eastern women's colleges, would support him in that statement. We've come to the conclusion that brawn, beauty and brains is a difficult combination; in fact, the phenomenon is confined to Olympian regions and is hardly to be met with in the earthly walks of Harvard Yard. Radcliffe News, April...
Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their gods...
...flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ. 196,000), although in all England only the Manchester Guardian comes close to the Times's great, impersonal prestige. If the Times suddenly vanished, most of its London readers would probably turn to the News Chronicle. The difference, as London...
...Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, the Big Three, in Olympian isolation, molded a politically inert Europe. But there was life in the kneaded clay; last week post war Europe's face began to emerge. The destiny of Europe still depended mainly on relations between the U.S. and Russia, but Europe was acquiring recognizable lineaments...