Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the armed forces are allowing each university to recommend draft exemptions for their specialists as they see fit. Having failed to formulate specifications for such recommendations, the services have indirectly given rise to a situation in which some schools feel justified in asking deferments for almost all their students regardless of fields, while other universities, like Harvard, don't even request exemption for their technicians...
This is the wrong season by the calendar but the spirit which has given rise in the past to many a spring riot seems to be abroad in an abbreviated form. Witness Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44, who returned from a date recently to find the minutest remains of a 25-pound cake of ice disappearing before his eyes...
Teresa's rise toward stardom has been without benefit of glamor. Neither prettier nor shapelier than thousands of other American girls, Cinemactress Wright has not got what it takes to become a blonde comet. Thus reduced to brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life...
...Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners, most of Lebanon's inhabitants were mild but firm abolitionists. Lebanon's leaders despised Jefferson Davis, the big planters, the innumerable fire-eating lawyers, preachers, sword-rattlers and politicians who helped make secession and war inevitable...
...novelist, who has stalked many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like Flaubert's ideal book about nothing . . . sustains itself on itself...