Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Harvard Student Agencies first sprang into existence last fall, there was much talk on the part of its leaders that the new organization was conceived to aid the needy scholarship lad, that it would most certainly not compete with local Harvard Square merchants, and that it was not directly affiliated with the University. Such talk proved reassuring at the time; but with the passage of months the philanthropic organization has begun to take on the shape of a potentially large scale monopoly, which gives a rather unsavory big business appearance to the academic community...
...young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear from sources such as The Editor neglects the existence of those of us who don't expect to spend our lives within the confines of a library stall. In short it is a glorification of the academic mind, and however nice it is to see every man have...
Jones: Well, it could. But consider that, by creating a surplus of cars, the auto industry probably reduced the actual price to the buyer-by big knock-offs on the list price. That leads me back to your talk about consumer disenchantment. How did it start-what with these price knockoffs and discount houses, and such...
Jones: That's pretty tough talk...
Flowery Charms. "Weak" was hardly the word for either creature. Mme. de Staël was a carthorse Juno with a passionate imagination: she could talk for hours on any given subject without pausing to breathe. Her lovers were so numerous that they ran concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly...