Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second event, Class Night, is set for the night of June 21 in the Eliot House courtyard, with a charge of $1 per person. On June 22, the day before Commencement, there will be an informal dinner, costing $1.50, also in the Eliot House courtyard...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) spoke up for the simple life, in Cue magazine: "I can only work as an anonymous person among anonymous people . . . The kind of life one leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...
...supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk, the man who had as many voices as he had characters, could feel his pulse rise from 80 to 120 beats a minute as, in the person of Bill Sikes, he advanced on himself in the person of Nancy, and her dying "shrieks rang through the hall." Once offstage, Dickens would collapse...
...work as consultant to the airforce, W. Ratton Leach. Professor at the Law School was awarded the exceptional civilian service award Saturday. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, presented the medal in person...
...person with the most prestige tends to do the most talking at a meeting and he often wins people to his side of an argument even if he is wrong...