Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew wearisome quickly. Alvarez Bulos, as the king, had some difficulties with lines, but otherwise was deft and urbane. As his daughter, O'Brien Nicholas looked and sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except for a tendency toward rock'n'roll left over from last year, sang well...
Scientific proof, according to Pettigrew, has demonstrated that girls tend to be more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works...
...which concerns modern social problems such as integration, are more willing to take an "adventurous stand" than their Harvard colleagues. This might well be true, he says, because girls will never have to take the responsibility for their radical opinions after college. Nevertheless, the girls' approach toward the course, "irresponsible" or not, does lead to top grades. Each year, of the top 10 grades, only one or two go to Harvard students...
...Toward the end, Trotsky's life became a charade of frustration and fear, and Wolfe's melodramatic style is well suited to convey the unreality of it all. Trotsky liked to say that the snowy volcanoes he could see from his windows were not extinct but dormant. But could the Red Napoleon really believe that his walled house was an Elba, not a St. Helena? He had tasted power, and missed it so much that he was delighted when simple Mexicans thought of him as a prince who had fallen (hence Wolfe's title...
...know Columbus Ave. was one-way when he entered it, but realized when he saw lights coming toward him rather than from behind. Barber said, about the liquor charge, that throughout the evening he had had only two small cups of Bourbon punch at a Yearbook party and a total of four beers at the Palace Bar and the 411 Lounge in Boston...