Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friction of his clothing as he moves sounds as if the cloth is tearing. He will be alone to an unprecedented degree in unfathomable isolation and in a state of dismal loneliness, where he and all of his perceptions are isolated from all things common to man's past experience...
...prosperous than at any other time since World War II. Never have more people owned their own homes; there are waiting lists for cars, tailors cannot get enough cutters to meet the tremendous demand for new suits, bookings for expensive continental holidays are the highest ever. Only in the past four years have the British enjoyed the kind of widely distributed prosperity that the U.S. has enjoyed for 15, and after ration-book austerity, the heady delights of TV sets, washers and new cars are an intoxicating experience...
Tiring of conversation with reporters his first day out, Templeton approached Steven Cohen, a sophomore shot putter, who was having his troubles. He worked with Cohen's body position for a moment and said, "Go thead and throw one." Cohen threw, and the shot landed two feet past the best previous mark. "That's the best I've felt in two weeks," Cohen remarked, and Templeton beamed with satisfaction...
...events of this past week are a good example of the inconsistency that has plagued the squad. After violently mixing the lineups of his four boats all spring, Coolidge left intact the same combinations since last Monday. On that day the boat stroked by Hoffman, designed as the varsity, beat Goodman's J.V.'s by a full length. But Wednesday Goodman's boat trounced the varsity by a length of open water, or two boat-lengths in all. Then Thursday it repeated the performance, although winning by only a length, and so earned the right to race the varsity shell...
Aaron has directed more than 30 dramatic productions over the past five years, including some of the most highly praised student productions at Harvard. The founding of Repertory Boston with Dean Gitter '56, and John G. Eyre '58 marked the establishment of the only true repertory theatre in the United States...