Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question just never arises. We assume that a twenty-fifth reunion is a Good Thing because anything of such monolithic proportions simply must have merit. And yet, there is certainly an air of organized fun about the reunion proceedings, and that is one of the CRIMSON'S pet bugbears. The proprietors of this column early appointed themselves guardians of social individuality, and have fought, tooth and typewriter, against the encroachments of Fraternity spirit. At first blush, the Reunion, with its loudspeakers, strict programs and officious officials seems a most virulent form of disciplined jollity. Why, then, is the CRIMSON...
Glowing with holiday anticipation, Britain's Prince Charles, 6, and his sister, Princess Anne, 4, with their pet Corgis waddling glumly beside them, entered Euston station to board a train that took them to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for Whitsuntide. At week's end, the royal children were caught at Balmoral by Britain's railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Strictly for the Bird. In Long Beach, Calif., Betty-Jo Michael got visitation rights at a predivorce hearing after her husband successfully bid for the custody of their pet parakeet, Pretty Boy, commented: "I figure that if I can keep the bird she'll come back...
Today, people listen more attentively when Lewis hammers away at his old conviction that both civilization and art depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
...bridges. The Nationalists regrouped, and in the evening they crossed the canal on both of the Binh Xuyen flanks, clobbering them, driving the terrorists clean out of town. The Nationalists destroyed the headquarters of the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien, the place where he kept his pet crocodiles. Only three Binh Xuyen posts remained; they were inside the cordoned-off French quarter. "Your courage has written a glorious page," Diem proclaimed to the flushed young troops...