Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Horatio Hornblower." Guaranteed to please all levels of comprehension, although in different degrees. . . "Here Lies" by Dorothy Parker reassembles most of her old stories and adds a few. Our Mrs. Parker may not seem quite so startling as she did in the dear dead days, but her stories still pack an impressive punch. . . . John O'Hara has some more tough stories in "Files On Parade" many of them good, although one can't help but feel that he is capable of better than he has been giving us. . . "Sailor off the Bremen," by Irwin Shaw, is a collection...
Even if this paradox can be resolved, a basic confusion still remains: the confusion about the role of the Communist in a liberal coalition. The H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and the extension of democracy. In theory it embraces all those who subscribe to those broad aims. In practice, however, it averages in political thought somewhere to the left of New Dealism...
Maybe it was his immense dignity. He was still the center of everything and the head of the table, among those men whom he once guided and counselled. He was still the ruler standing underneath his towers and surveying monuments called by his name. He didn't cut the cake skillfully or neatly, but his actions seemed to have the slowness of deliberation and dignity rather than impotence...
...Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games. All of these men saw plenty of action a year...
...Convention of the American Student Union after Christmas, relations with Russia will again develop into a storm-center. Already a hundred New York chapters have decided to stick by the Party Line. But on a national vote dissension will break out through the Student Union. If the Party Line still holds after the smoke has cleared, no choice remains for Harvard but to cut its strings with the parent organization...