Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handy CRIMSON that the Establishment, since my remorseless withdrawal from the celestial confines, continues with undiminished zeal in its search for the truth that we all seek. I can only express (from my dark corner) my gratitude for its paternal indulgence of its wayward sons. I refer, of course, to a recent CRIMSON story reporting what our Housemasters think of those sorry seniors who shut out from their lives the golden world of the Houses and who slunk into the drafty and frosty holes that are the private dwellings of Cambridge...
Family of Distinction Sir: The Dr. Jean Persons, a public-health physician in Alaska whom you refer to in MEDICINE of the Oct. 6 issue, is the daughter of the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II. Her uncle, Wilton Burton Persons, is the man President Eisenhower tapped to be his new White House chief of staff (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, same issue...
Although Wolfe felt oppressed by New England morality, there is no evidence that it had the slightest real effect on him. His letters refer to various affairs, and the writings of the last year especially are filled with allusions to a particular unnamed girl. On one occasion he wrote: "Last night I was caught in the Harvard Yard with a girl... doing the worst I could. The yard-cop was fat and portentious. `Mister,' says he, breathing heavily through his mouth, `this has got to stop...
Sarcastically, he reviewed the recommended procedure: "If the demon seems at all active, the priest or doctor should refer it to the bishop. Then, if the demon understands Latin and the bishop thinks a case has been made for exorcism, he should consult a panel of priests and doctors for diagnosis. After the panel has reported, the bishop may proceed to do something about it. But what is the demon going to do? He may be an Anglican demon-or he may lack completely the kind of intelligence an Anglican shows when an appeal is made to the bishop...
...Nazi, the Shah was using the word "Aryan" in its true ethnic sense, i.e., to refer to the Indo-Iranian peoples who 4,000 years ago occupied the Persian plateau and conquered most of India...