Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked--worked so well that by Open House Night, only 20 sophomores were on the class president's list as potential trouble spots. The Committee was active here again, patrolling Prospect Street, wearing white armbands for identification and equipped with walkie-talkies ("Hello, Tommy, this is Phil--do you read me? Over. Jones and Smith just signed in at Terrace. Over. We're down to seven. Over and Out."). Gradually, the list of men "in trouble" was pared down; shortly before the 10 o'clock deadline, everyone was accounted for; "100% was achieved...
...pine dips its obscuring wing. The detail further shows that Chinese scroll paintings can be enjoyed a little at a time, as was intended. Ideally, the viewer unrolled the scroll from his left hand, very slowly, while rolling it up again with his right. Thus the scroll should be read like music (but from right to left), with its themes and counterthemes, its unexpected accents and climaxes...
...thing as virtue." The Possessed was partly written to illuminate that point. The book swept from Russia's liberals, who reveled in sentimental idealism, straight to the awful result: the young nihilists of the 1870s, who believed that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says...
...been invited to any of the performances, but he had read about the programs and that was enough. So far as Drama Critic Richard Coe of the Washington Post and Times Herald is concerned, during the 1958-59 season the White House was one of the nation's worst show spots. Running down the bills, Critic Coe could tick off the Supreme Court dinner in December, when the President's guests heard a collection of local amateur harpists; the diplomatic corps dinners, which featured the boys' choir of Washington's Landon School; and the season...
...Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question on Clark's first examination in physiology read: "Furnish evidences of the existence of one intelligent and benevolent Creator...