Word: sighingly
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...examination period, Harvard Men are eager still for intellectual challenge. But their frazzled pates respond only in dulled cliches. Confronted with his grade sheet a student is apt to murmur ominously, "beware of Greeks bearing gift horses in the mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers...
Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. In this sad but sparkling French musical, Director Jacques Demy heaves a sigh for every sweet young thing who ever traded her first careless rapture for a bit of tangible security...
Watching the crowds jostling through the Met's entrance last week, Director James J. Rorimer, 59, could not repress a small sigh for the bygone days when museum corridors contained echoes rather than crocodiles of squealing children. "My ivory tower is no more," he said. In the decade of Rorimer's stewardship at the Met, annual attendance has skyrocketed from 2,830,000 to nearly 6,000,000, rising more rapidly than that of any other major U.S. museum. Over the Washington's Birthday weekend, the Met counted a record of 59,099 admissions during Sunday...
John Casey, whose story, "A Taste of Cherry," begins "I cannot describe to you very well the boarding school," deserves a nod of agreement and a sigh. Lee Grove, a young man distressed by what old men think, rates a prize for non-sequiturs and bad puns. Kevin Lewis, who has written two poems about vapid lives, could be accused of writing method poetry...