Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most campuses, no one would think there was anything very strange about the ideas of Frank Richardson. A mild-mannered man with a distracted, scholarly air, he is chairman of the biology department at the University of Nevada, has never done anything more unorthodox than ride to class on a motorcycle. But Richardson happens to believe in high academic standards and intellectual discipline. It was that belief that got him into hot water with Nevada's new President Minard W. Stout...
...RIDE OUT THE STORM (470 pp.)-Roger Vercel-Putnam...
Sunday, the class participated in the Baccalaureate service, with John H. Finley, master of Eliot House, delivering the sermon. Last night it held the Senior Spread in the Eliot House Senior courtyard, with music by Woody Herman. Later tonight the class will board the "Boston Belle," and take a ride around Boston Harbor. Music on board will be by Sammy Eisen...
...that it cannot possibly be built into the average movie house. Its effect on audiences at Manhattan's Broadway Theater was startling. It ran over the customers like a colossal vacuum cleaner, sucking them up into whatever it was doing. When the screen went for a roller-coaster ride, the whole theater seemed to heave and be dragged, screaming, after...
...other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms him with a frontal attack of enormous images and sounds. Audiences will be put, especially with the addition of stereophonic sound, somewhat in the position of Tennyson's lancers in the Light Brigade. They will have to ride unreasoning through volley and thunder into any old melodrama Hollywood cares to spread before them...