Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country as one-third of the population. Now it seems to be 50%. That's a sinister thing." Victorious Sir Edgar Whitehead indicated that his forces had studied the election returns. He announced that the reforms opening the voting rolls to some 10,000 Africans would stay, but certain unskilled jobs would continue to be reserved for poor whites as he had pledged during the campaign. "Restrictions have existed here since the beginning," said Sir Edgar. "You can't disregard race in this country...
Elizabeth Arden has all this-and then some. She operates two remote Shangri-Las, also called Maine Chance, one in Maine and one near Phoenix, Ariz. (made more famous by Mamie Eisenhower's two-week stay last spring). At the Maine Chances, described by Elizabeth as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," patrons not only get treatments for their face, figure and hair, but live an austere life that rules out fatty foods and liquor (if they are overweight), involves daily exercise and sports instruction. Cost: from $400 to $600 weekly, depending on accommodations...
...that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never die. Fear of ghosts, fear of witches, fear of the dark, the sinister and the mysteriously terrible-these stay with the adolescent. There are three ways to overcome them: psychoanalysis, nightmares, and terror movies, [in which] old childhood anxieties are activated, given life and a form of objective reality on the screen, and then dispelled...
...study halls, which are required for all but students in the top two classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students in the top two classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students gets to be a senior, he can stay up all night, smoke, go to Concord whenever he pleases, and sleep through breakfast. Yet he still can't skip classes, and his housemaster still discusses his grades with him every two weeks. It is hard to determine just how much responsibility one can put on a student, and if Middlesex...
...other "great issue" was the Memorial Church controversy this spring. While the terms of the dispute have been aired at practically excessive length, it is interesting to try to gauge the depth of feelings involved. This was as emotional an issue as has hit Harvard in '58's stay, and it seemed that the President seriously misjudged the depth of feeling on this explosive issue, both among Faculty and students. The issue that people were thinking about--the extent of the University's interest in and commitment to religion--was never really brought into the open...