Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would it not be expected that the best students, on the basis of college achievement, should go to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences? This is where they seem to have a comparative advantage. Their academic distinction in Arts and Sciences points to exploitation in Graduate make the best use of their capacities...
Comin' & Goin'. As wrestling styles have changed, so has wrestling's audience. The joints are filling up with women fans. "It's natural, ain't it?" asks Mondt. "Women like to look at well-developed fellas." They seem to like to crowd close to ringside, curse the villains, cheer the heroes, and punctuate the performance with strategically planted hatpins. In Manhattan, where wrestling fans bought out Madison Square Garden seven times last year and caused two small-scale riots, the most popular musclemen make up the tag team of Antonino Rocco and Miguel Perez. Rocco...
...static to suggest history in the making, The Rivalry is fraught with tragic history in the offing-the Civil War. Its great protagonists seem a little like daguerreotypes of themselves, but the issue of right and wrong, which they debated, never fades...
...restored at least a dozen previously deleted episodes, but most of them make the modern reader wonder why the old man should have been prevented for so long from rattling his dead bones. Today Mark Twain's often irreverent notions about God, Bible and his fellow men seem no more fearsome than a day in a college classroom. By the lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying...
Margaret, at 28, has spirit enough to marry Colum even though it means leaving dear old daddy, who has been so dependent on her. At first, Colum is just wonderful to Margaret, but his friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush...