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Word: sayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orlovsky did not say a word during the entire reading, and it was only during the question period that, upon the urging of the audience, he read three of his short poems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatniks Corso, Ginsberg Howl Before New Lec Crowd | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Surely the crowded seating and ugly surroundings are a far cry from President Lowell's orginal vision of the house dining halls as centers of social and intellectual intercourse in an atmosphere of gracious living. Some would say that the lamentable condition in the house dining halls is a necessary sacrifice for the furthering of the house drama. A dining hall, however, is basically a place in which to eat. House drama groups should not be allowed to disrupt dining hall life except immediately before and during their performances. Better planning would lighten the load on the already severely taxed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EATING AND ACTING | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...Student Council plans to institute a series of panel discussions to "give students a chance to have their say on problems of concern to the Undergraduate community," Council President Edward L. Croman '60 announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Plans Panel Discussions To Examine University Problems | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

Actually, Henry Ford II and Chairman Ernest Breech had not intended to say anything about Ford's economy car until it was ready to be marketed, lest it keep people from buying this year's cars. What forced the company's hand was the fact that the Ford Foundation is preparing to sell some 2,000,000 shares of Ford Motor stock. Ford lawyers decided that the registration statement on the sale, required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would have to take note of Ford's plans for the small car. Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Small-Car Push | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...approaching a masterpiece, show simple courtesy, suggests Author Eliot: let the painting speak first. This demands "a kind of reverence, a still gratitude, but definitely not admiration. The moment one stops to say. 'Isn't that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: School for Heroes | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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