Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small beside the rise of college costs. When one considers that there were only two tuition raises in the seven years from 1949 to 1956, and that during that same period the board and room rates remained extremely stable, the increases of the last three years have to be thought of as having very little to do directly with the fluctuations of the national economy...
...your nice note today and wanted to thank you for it before I forgot. As you probably remember you suggested that now was the "right TIME" to save on the purchase of TIME, because "Never before in history has the news been so urgent and thought-compelling, so packed with surprise and excitement as it is today.... As you probably already know," you wrote me, "college students prefer TIME to any other magazine. So do business leaders, statemen, up-and-coming young professional...
...best thing about TIME is that it doesn't take all that "urgent and thought-compelling" twaddle so seriously that there isn't room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue...
...Solid State. Then, of course, if you don't know why Tom Dooley should hang down his head, or what you get for loading sixteen tons, or what's on top of Old Smoky, English 195, Folksong and Balladry, in Emerson A, is just the thing. And if English thought from Burke to Mill happens to be the lone weak spot in your arsenal of knowledge, take History 143 with assistant professor Graubard in Harvard...
...State of Grace M. Duperrier, a good Christian in the prime of life, is crowned with a radiant halo "which looked as though it might have been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute...