Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, will retire this summer, President Pusey announced yesterday, and his successor will be Samuel H. Miller, professor of Pastoral Theology. The retiring Dean guided the Divinity School through four of its most erucial years...
Nehru's announcement capped one of the epic escape stories of history. On the night of March 17, under cover of darkness, Tibet's Living Buddha slipped out of the Norbulingka, his summer palace outside Lhasa, and together with his mother, two sisters and a younger brother, headed south across the most forbidding mountain country in the world to join the Khamba tribesmen who had launched Tibet's revolt against Red Chinese tyranny. For 15 days the Dalai Lama and his tiny retinue traveled by foot and by mule-back, first across the Kyi Chu River...
...Sunnylands Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...
There are also courses devoted primarily to technical problems, such as Arch. Sci. 253--Reinforced Concrete Design. As a further step the three departments require the students to spend one summer at practical professional experience. Recognizing that one cannot learn flashing and sheathing from a draughting board the Department of Architecture recommends a job in the field. So one recent student found employment as a hod carrier...
What will most grasp the reader's attention, however, is the no-holds-barred sex which enlivens the mid-summer campaign for the governorship of Mississippi. In this connection it is useful that the protagonist, although paunchy and past his prime, is possibly the biggest man with the girls south of Memphis. Also that the two fully developed female characters are nymphomaniacs allows for frequent relaxations from the business of capturing the statehouse. The only problem with all this is that it imposes the necessity of building up to greater and greater exploits and more improbable melodrama. With the first...