Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, then the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, commemmorated the event with something short of glorious exaltation. Instead, it published a two-art article by a young journalist with the pleasantly déjà-vu name of Tom Wolfe. The article was entitled "Tiny Mummies: The True Story of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead." And, as they say back in the New Yorker's 43rd Street office, it became the talk of the town...
...occasionally boring. This range of quality reflects the differences between craftsmen and technicians, experiment and gesture, ideas and platitudes, insights and effects. If these works were not distinguished by brilliant felicity or profundity, neither were they irrecoverably interred by grandiloquence or senescence. Those qualities are the uninspired composer's short cut to maturity...
...before Harvard classes began in September. The new teachers met with the staff and an advisor every day in the bottom floor lounge of Hilles. Outside one could watch the changing patterns of the late summer light sparkling trough the trees surrounding Hilles; inside, one watched the other teachers, short-sleeved, spread out around a large rectangular table, expressing their ideals and uncertainties about teaching a Challenge class...
...Homeland Reserve Force, formed last year and composed of army veterans who undergo intensive drills at least twice a week at their factories or offices. With the national police, the reserves share primary responsibility for the defense of villages, towns and cities. Because rifles and carbines are in short supply, however, more than half the reserves drill with wooden guns...
...however, and the Much Ado About Nothing which the Harvard Dramatic Club is offering us these evenings gives every indication of a troublesome haunting. This amateur spiritualist, for one, suspects that the production may be infected by restless remnants of last week's faculty meeting, for it is as short on clarity as it is long on good will, and frequently evinces the spirit of vain disputatiousness which we have come to expect of proceedings governed by Robert's Rules of Order...