Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to section ten of Regulations Relating to Students at Harvard College, "Deliberate removal of a book from any University library without authorization will ordinarily lead to severance of connections...
...hardly to be supposed that any reader, once he has laid aside TIME'S Books section will feel that anything at all is worth buying . . . and yet, we survive - without greeting cards, without gadgets, without records: just books. Furthermore, we also make money and, curiously enough, we like to read and, even more curiously, so do our customers. Like the lady in a less noble profession, I guess we're just lucky...
Through the evening the orchestra had a mellower, thicker tone than its great U.S. colleagues. Its string section sounded as sweet and intimate as a string quartet, its winds included a solo flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality. Conductor von Karajan, lean and dapper, planted his feet firmly, took a stance with elbows bent as if carrying an invisible basket of flowers. His style was mannered-in his most ardent moments he bent stiffly from the waist and closed his eyes-and he gave the impression of overseeing...
...eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read it straight through three times. I quoted it all the time. I'll bet there are still a dozen hoboes...
...temporary cahoots with the tycoon is Horace Nimbus, a Humanities 3 section man, played by Stephen Addiss. He succeeds in looking the part, and his monologues are often too near reality to be amusing. But in all he captures the faculty spirit, and pleasantly at that. The supporting roles are a compendum of unusual types, including Chowderhead Chumley (Stephen Bolster), who is the suede jacket tough man for the Radcliffe operation. Wheareas he tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger...