Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark of early morning, long before the regular 10 o'clock opening hour, a Freshman who just couldn't wait to get started on his college career sneaked into Memorial Hall and signed his name--William Eustis--that interminable number of times that seem to be required, thus becoming the first official member of his class...
...would seem that the French mobilizing of one million men and Chamberlain' about breaking of the conversations with Hitler were an attempt to regain loss of leadership and to act upon the sentiments of the French and British people. Perhaps Chamberlain and Daladier took to heart Anthony Eden's statement that "continued retreat can only lead to ever widening confusion" or Maxim Litivinoff's cry that Britain and France were "avoiding a problematical war today in return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." Perhaps Hitler raised his demands to a limit which could not even be acceptable...
Cambridge and Harvard are not difficult to navigate once knows the way around. At the start, however, the University and its surroundings may seem rather hit or miss. For that reason the accompanying map and its explanation below can be of service in first finding where's what...
Last week the second volume dealing with the O'Neills did both. The best of James Farrell's books to date, No Star Is Lost is also his mellowest and most imaginative, has little of the rancor (so strong that it sometimes seemed Author Farrell hated all his characters and all their kin) that marred his previous novels. No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother...
Despite its brutal theme, Horns For Our Adornment shows an underlying sympathy for its characters which, by comparison with the unadulterated nihilism of Celine (TIME, Aug. 29), makes Sandemose seem buoyant with human feeling. This quality to some readers may be as shocking as the author's merciless realism...