Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration closed Memorial Hall as a dining room, and for the next six years everyone in the University had to "eat out" in the Square, if he were...
Patrick's script comments wryly on religion. Bunny, a "you-all" type from the southwestern United States, played with high humor by Louise Latham, claims as her faith "extinctionism." In her credo, "nothing matters... God created man to become extinct; in fact, the world ended six hundred years ago." Since, therefore, Bunny doesn't really exist, her cult tells her "anything I do doesn't matter--it's a divine religion...
...remedy the situation, Lowell passed through the Governing Board a program for concentration and distribution which has become the basis of the present program in General Education. Beginning with the Class of 1914, the Administration required that six of the 16 courses for the degree be in a single field and six others spread among three different fields. This, they hoped, would force every student in the College to achieve Lowell's ideal of a scholar--"to know a little of everything and something well...
...SECOND WORLD WAR, by Winston S. Churchill and the Editors of LIFE (615 pp., 2 vols.; TIME Inc.; regular edition, $25; deluxe edition, $27.50), combines the best of Churchill's sonorous prose from his six-volume history of World War II with some of the greatest war pictures and paintings ever brought between covers. The result, an excellent piece of bookmaking, anatomizes and dramatizes the greatest of wars. Included in the deluxe edition is an evocative recording of some of Churchill's wartime speeches...
This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...