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...tall, tanned man with chestnut colored hair and a friendly but not flashly smile, Pusey speaks earnestly and fluently. Another friend has said, however, "There's going to be an uproar when he gives his first speech at Harvard. His speeches always rend well, but Pusey doesn't. His voice is flat and a little monotonous, but he does get his ideas across--and he has the ideas in the first place...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nathan M. Pusey: Culture Moves East | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...supposed to be inheriting a bankrupt franchise on the Charles, where prestige was non-existent and morale appallingly low. The experts set up a sympathetic wailing for the innocent victim who was walking into a hornets' nest of powerful Ivy League squads that would decimate his team and rend his players limb from limb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Best Is Yet to Come | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Boston's annual 3500 crop of stray dogs, is that the brethren of the medical profession are all natural sadists who derive orgiastic joy from the sufferings of mute beasts. A plethora of theological arguments are also adduced to show that what God hath made, no mere man should rend asunder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dog's Life | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

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