Word: omens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the announcement does not give a definite promise that Lamont will immediately begin to meet the needs of the students it serves, the statement is a good omen to those who must use its facilities. The financial problem represents a sizable stumbling-block, but could be partially overcome if students were allowed to replace regular employees at the checkout desks during the extended hours. Many job-seeking undergraduates would welcome the chance to work at times when classes do not meet...
...them, but events that stir the emotions to violence, that engages us in what is direct and immediate and real, and events that involve the concepts and sanctions that are the order of our lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this situation, what is the poet's role? To cherish imagination not as escape from reality but as "the necessary angel" by whose shaping grace man's need to make sense of reality is fulfilled. Nobility must be expressed, wrote Wallace Stevens...
...Omen...
...made a predawn pilgrimage to the golden-roofed temple of the Lord Pashupatinath to pray to Shiva for guidance while a river of milk flowed over his feet. In the midst of the prayer, a great clap of thunder shattered the silence of Katmandu. Mahendra took it as an omen and promptly fired Nepal's Prime Minister. A democratically-minded young man, Mahendra was outraged by Nepalese politics. "Some people excuse themselves by saying Nepalese democracy is still only in its infancy, but this seems a strange excuse to me," said the young King. "Infants do not indulge...
...Friends. The day began with a good omen. Handsome Dave McDonald, president of the United Steel Workers, one of the three C.I.O. negotiators, could hear through the left ear for the first time in seven years ("miraculously" cured by a doctor in his hotel). The six unionists were affable but brisk and businesslike. For seven hours they negotiated with professional ease. Lunch was brought in (club sandwiches, cake and coffee...