Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grad might suspect that the men of '54 have acquired that "Harvard indifference" a little prematurely, if he had heard one small freshman ask, wide-eyed, "What is this Smoker...
...three stories in the current Advocate, which to me are murky and impenetrable, are to others successful and well-written. Such persons, I suspect, are either deluding themselves, or are equipped with refined sensibilities which are especially attuned to this note in writing. It is a note, at any rate, which arouses only a puzzled and slightly annoyed response from a person of more ordinary tastes, which this reviewer freely admits himself...
Three Husbands (United Artists] stencils itself hopefully on 1949's successful A Letter to Three Wives. Based on a story by Novelist Vera Caspary, who worked on the plot for Three Wives, the picture gives three men (Howard da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes) reason to suspect their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown) of infidelity, then sits back to watch them squirm...
Very little in the first hundred pages of this final batch of F.D.R.'s letters (Vols. III & IV cover the years from 1928 to 1945) would lead anyone to suspect that he would soon become one of the most daring and controversial political leaders of his time. But after he took office as President, the letters have a more thoughtful tone; they are dominated by a grave anxiety over the future of the country and by an almost imperious energy in behalf of the program by which Roosevelt proposed to save...
...questions are, of course, rhetorical. I suspect that your writers have a carry-over Stover-at-Yale obsession from childhood, or that they are congenitally unhappy. For a reporter, by all journalistic canons with which I am acquainted, would shrink from taking one aspect of the life of a community (and even that was treated with liberal superficiality) and generalizing it as the overall picture. A visitor to Cambridge, for instance, might read the Lampoon's recent miscarriage and bruit it about that all Harvard men are intellectual snobs and/or obscene. Upon a perusal of the CRIMSON, he might conclude...