Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed with the alumni and an HGC recording singing "Fair Harvard," a sentimentality somewhat clouded by a slowing down of the record and a subsequent destroying of the melody. The guests tried to continue singing, but most people eventually collapsed with laughter, and President Pusey was later heard to remark, "The New Haven radio station was no doubt jamming...
Unwanted Meeting. Afterwards, Menshikov told newsmen that Ike and he had both "expressed the hope that the [summit] meeting will be organized." The remark had a prophetic ring: under subtle pressures of opinion at home and abroad, the U.S. seemed to be drifting inexorably toward a summit meeting without either wanting one or doing much to counter the pressures...
Patchen is a big boy now, 47 years old, and one's initial reaction is to remark that the fellow still hasn't grown up. His work is formless, often maudlin, sometimes downright silly. Yet amongst his poems (and he is, or has been, a very prolific writer) are flashes of humor and even insight that make leafing through this newest volume a not wholly unrewarding hour...
...slips into the frowsy, unbuttoned atmosphere of the jockey's room, does Willie really relax. Mumbling around a sandwich while he plays a game of pool or knock rummy before a race, Willie almost seems one of the boys. His quick answers are not always cutting; the casual remark is often actually friendly. But warm spontaneity is seen so seldom that even among the other jocks Hartack has no real intimates...
...been dropping into his White House office to moan about the kicks in the teeth they were getting from high-stepping Democrats. In addition, along with other White House aides, Adams had been doing a slow burn of his own over such Democratic slants as Harry Truman's remark that Eisenhower was a good general when he had someone else (i.e., Harry Truman) to tell him what to do (TIME, Jan. 20). Thus, when Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn asked Adams to deliver a fund-raising speech in Minneapolis, the President's Chief of Staff sharpened his pencil...