Word: summatione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In moving at last to action, the faculty has a powerful weapon: statewide fear that Ole Miss may yet lose accreditation when the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools meets at the end of this month. "If one teacher is fired for his views now," says History Professor Silver...
Poetry, the late Wallace Stevens was fond of saying, is the one reality in an otherwise wholly imaginary world. Shortly before his death in 1955, he wrote a poetic summation of the poetic experience that serves well as an epitaph:
The tune may be the perfect expression of Holly Golightly's sweet ambiance or a deft summation of a caviar girl recalling the days of grits and gravy. Then again, it may be simply lazy schmalz, dressed to the airy glamour of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whatever the...
For all his frustrations at Ike's hands, Nixon remains genuinely admiring of his old chief. His summation of President Eisenhower: "He was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words. Not shackled to a one-track mind...
Despite considerable concessions to his new government partners, the Free Democrats, Adenauer plainly remains his own boss. Der Alte blithely added to his Cabinet without consulting his coalition colleagues, further humiliated Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard (whom he considers too spineless to rule Germany) by withdrawing Erhard's unofficial title...