Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president James M. Bardeen '60 said the report urged the Senate "to set up some sort of committee to study the draft law. Everyone seems to say it is a bad law. Why don't they do something about it?" he asked...
...Harvard CRIMSON of February 19, three of my colleagues and friends (Messrs. Cherington, H. M. Jones, and Taylor) "attack Harris study on education." I am quoted as saying somewhere "that classes between 25 and 75 are 'worthless.'" I never said anything of the kind. I do believe that the most effective teaching, vis-a-vis the resources put in, is in the very small groups or lectures with, say, 75 students or more. Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman, Department of Economics...
...voice, but it was rather overshadowed by Miss Baez's in several of their duets. Her legitimate folksongs were as exciting as her illegitimate songs were funny. Without trying to define just what it is that makes a folksinger better than the usual, finer than professional, suffice it to say that she can communicate a rare and beautiful sadness...
...still on the stand, he grew red with anger, waved it in the air, cried: "I just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen...
When the Chinese want to wish anyone harm, according to Novelist Monica Stirling, they say, "May you live at an interesting period of history." The saying may or may not be authentic, but its barbed humor especially befits the century in which the high cost of living has been surpassed only by the higher cost of staying alive. Authors Meray and Stirling take a Communist Party bureaucrat and a teen-age refugee girl, respectively, and evoke contrasting symbols of 20th century corruption and redemption...