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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Sir Hugh: "This is the culmination of a whispering campaign put about, I am sure, by my brothers. They say to any newspaperman who will listen that I am a sort of wild half-wit brought up on the Cornish moors . . . They suggest that I was shuffled off overseas because I was clearly unfit to follow their pursuits of the law and politics." Actually, insisted Sir Hugh, he had won as many scholastic honors as an undergraduate at Cambridge as his brothers had when they were up at Oxford. "As to the gypsies," wrote the Cyprus governor, "well...
California is five-to-three Democratic, but pool-room Angelenos and the Gardena oddsmakers are betting on Knowland and Knight. The past has proven that in times of muddy principles, the big name always wins. Meanwhile, the amateurs have gone back to bedroom grumbling and the sort of self-indulgence that keeps America on the middle road to nowhere...
...bohemians: "Avoid what is called the 'ruffianly style of dress' or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbuttoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. That sort of affectation is, if possible, more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude...
...Council also hopes, Abrams said, to effect "some sort of all-college unifying attitude," so the Council might "create the feeling that we are needed." In reference to the 1957 Council's frequent inability to gather a quorum, Leland felt that the new Council "would not need encouragement to attend meetings. They all ran for election...
...homogeneous mass, other factors being equal. This quest for diversity is hampered when means of recognizing differences are abolished. The Indian or Negro would find his chances better, if a picture broadcasts his distinction, than if left to the law of averages. Harvard as a whole benefits from this sort of favoritism...