Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night Before" amused and surrounded by tanks. Then last summer they came out in flowers. Lucy in the Sky in with Diamonds was an anagram for LSD; A Day in the Life smoked pot; and then there was All You Need Is Love. Great new sounds, but it sure looked like they'd joined the hippies. After their new 45, we can turn around and read the summer differently. They may have dressed like hippies and even been fascinated by hippies, but they stuck to their own insights and philosophy...
...time was split between shooting people and making plans of how to shoot more people; everyone around me was sure they were doing the right thing, and they rationalized the bad by saying that it was the price that has to be paid," Sloan said. "The people I was with were not fanatics, they were thoroughly regular people who were isolated form others with a different opinion of the war," he continued...
...Michaels' direction shows an especially sure touch for farcical slapstick business, nice details of external characterization, and the blocking of any largish group. He shows less command when he has a small, intimate scene at hand, but when he errs, he does so in the direction of emphasizing frenetic movement, which has a special comic advantage over the static set-ups so familiar to Harvard stages...
...devised last year, and thus resolve years of debate. It will select 400 to 500 members of the freshman class who represent the "strength of the class" based on their accomplishments here so far. They will be distributed by the committee among the eight residence Houses to make sure that each House gets an even share of athletes, musicians, and actors. The committee will, of course, try to follow the preferences of the Masters and the students in this first group. The rest of the class, presumably the "un-strength of the class," will be distributed among the Houses mostly...
Then this latest announcement is surely a tribute to Harvard ingenuity. All the freshmen who are now assigned to Houses they did not want--presumably, the usual 800 or 900 as in past years--can comfort themselves with the thought that they, like the Greek tragic hero, are victims of their own great qualities. Those few who wind up in a House they wanted, can feel that the strong urgings of their House Master won over the Committee's desire to cut them into eight pieces so as to make sure each House got its fair share. Surely, then...