Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second year opened with a Student Council blast at the working of Lowell's tutorial system. Critical only of the system's application, the report praised it in theory and called for its extension into new areas. But football fever, not tutor-student relations filled the Fall...
...Mary I. Bunting, a dean at Rutgers University, will become the next President of Radcliffe. The official announcement was made yesterday by Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, Chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, confirming the CRIMSON report of two weeks...
...GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote in blood, at a moment when the world was sick of the sight of blood, a great, pathetic page in the history of courage...
...Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...
...about are hunting, the schooling of hunting birds and beasts (Falconry, White insists, "is not a hobby or an amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone...