Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quincy--stand "at the top of the list of building objectives" in the Program, and presumably this additional space will be used to relieve overcrowding. Quincy will open next Fall, the Leverett Towers a year later, followed by two more Houses in the near future. Extensive deconversion, it is thought, cannot be far behind...
...major problems which underlay the recently concluded dispute over the Senior Class Marshal election is one that deserves considerable thought during the coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
...management trainees would recognize in Cordiner the image of the successful executive they aspire-and are taught-to be. Cordiner thinks the world is moved by men of independent thought ("I have a strong aversion to yes men"), has strong convictions on virtually everything from politics (far to the right) to television ("We are in danger of becoming a nation of watchers instead of doers"). He has been married for 33 years, lives a Spartan life in which he drinks little (a few Scotches now and then), eats little (no desserts, frequent salads and sandwiches), sleeps little (average: six hours...
...triumphs of democratic, middle-class civilization is that anybody can be a snob about practically anybody else. In darker ages, one man's ability to make another man feel like an ignorant peasant was thought to be an inborn talent of the aristocracy. Nowadays, anyone can learn the trick, and there is no better instructor than Britain's Stephen Potter, a kind of arsenical Dale Carnegie and master planner of social insecurity...
...bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill and pride of a real...