Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exists in the country. Britain's exhibit is solemn and stately. The main hall resembles Westiminister Abbey, the lights are subdued. There are no crowds and everyone files through in order. The guards at the door seem borrowed from the Buckingham Palace brigade, but they turn their heads and say a word of greeting to an occasional young girl. The hard-working Dutch were ambitious enough to build a model dike with artificial waves and a farm replete with cows, chickens, pigs, a farmer and his family...
...think Guerard justifies the whole of his interpretation here. For one thing, he is inconsistent; he speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught...
...past the Council has served a purpose within the Harvard community through its debates with University Hall on issues like parietal hours, board rates, and parking. Sometimes the students, through the Council, have won. And while no one can say for certain that the Student Council has prevented any riots it has served as a means by which student protests have reached the Administration. Those days are gone forever. Deans who believe they are helping students are not likely to listen to their troubles. Whatever influence the Council once had with the Administration as a student organization representing student sentiment...
Sarbanes did not say whether he favored written pledges or simply verbal promises of non-discrimination from landlords. But he did assert that the Housing Registry "should aim at getting a stronger commitment from landlords in order to obtain listing...
...would be best for the registry secretary simply to ask landlords who want placement on the list if they will rent to non-whites, and if they say no, to refuse to list them...