Word: placing
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...come to my attention that Hank Keohane is currently circulating a petition in the Houses requesting that nominations for Senior Class Marshal be reopened. When I spoke with Mr. Keohane Sunday, he expressed the opinion that the Student Council should allow him to place his name on the ballot. He requested this on the grounds that he was not aware of the date by which petitions were due and that it was only after he saw the pictures of the 32 Marshal candidates in the CRIMSON that he realized he had missed the deadline. Although signs were placed...
Balloting for the NSA referendum will take place in Dudley Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, and in the other Houses on the 15. The Student Council voted Oct. 26, with only one dissent, to recommend that Harvard rejoin the organization, a decision that the College must ratify before it becomes binding. In a similar referendum a year ago, the vote was 891 to 823 to withdraw...
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE (256 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Messner...
Whatever the inspiration that sent a flat-wheeled caboose clattering after Author Metalious' steam-powered first novel, Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling...
That's the first prerequisite. The second involves not letting the name William Faulkner cross your mind during the show, for it will only evoke sympathy for Mr. Faulkner and antipathy for Jerry Wald, of Peyton Place fame, who lovingly identified Faulkner with his film, but who cunningly ripped up The Hamlet into many pieces, tossed them into the air, and caught mostly his own chaff...