Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marked by the unpleasant fact that the officials saw fit to call 12 personal fouls on the varsity while assessing only one to Yale, the half saw both teams employ man-to-man defenses, the outstanding defensive player being Tom Molumphy, who bottled up George Harrington...
Ingmar Bergman needs no praise for those Brattle patrons who saw his delightful Smiles of a Summer Night earlier this year. And just as that earlier, lighter masterwork examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other...
There was less excuse for the student studying Allegro. In this work, the poet speaks of reading Ben Jonson's play Learned Sock. It came out on the exam thus: "Young Milton, out strolling in the country, saw Jonson's socks...
Spelling errors crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...
...book. Last Train from Berlin, was a bestseller in England and the U.S. (While still a political liberal, Smith is now embarrassed by some of the positions he took in the book, e.g., a statement that "Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw.") He replaced Edward R. Murrow in 1946 as CBS's chief European correspondent, was brought to the U.S. in 1957. Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president and news manager, calls Smith "the intellectual dean of the CBS news staff...