Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ferocious 100% America than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story as a whole, without exactly following the thread of it, which it would have taken me a second reading to disentangle . . . Like all these recent writers, the author is too lazy and self-indulgent, and throws...
Both Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio issued outraged denials, but the fact is that Oregon's Morgan understood their strategy even if he was wrong about the money. While waiting for the swept-up pieces, Averell Harriman will be standing by-but not idly. He has already made one foray into the Middle West, for a speech last month in Des Moines. (Harriman gave this critique of his Des Moines performance: "What they think about out there is ham and corn, and I was both hammy and corny.") Next fortnight he will fly to the Northwest for appearances...
...presumably intelligent land is that the South solve the great public problem of desegregation by putting an end to public education-indeed, to all education so far as the overwhelming majority of the people are concerned . . . The anger of those who propose such drastic remedies . . . should be understood, too, as something beyond secession from the Union. What they urge is secession from civilization . . . No land indeed has ever been so clearly warned by its own past as to the fatal futility of flight from intellectualism as the American South ... It is not doubtful, but a certainty, that a South which...
...christening. From then on, Margaret and her sister Elizabeth formed the habit of dropping in at the Townsend cottage on Sunday mornings, Elizabeth to chat with Rosemary and Margaret to play with the babies. Margaret never went alone to the Townsends, but in the family it was generally understood that she was his special charge, and Peter was frequently at the Princess' side in line of duty. Elizabeth often made their party a threesome, but after the elder sister's engagement to Philip Mountbatten, things changed. Elizabeth sometimes dropped by the cottage for tea or a cocktail with...
This morning, Wallace McDonald '44, Director of Freshman Scholarships, and John U. Monro '34, Director of Financial Aid, will discuss with the group the whole problem of College scholarships for both freshman and upperclassmen. It is understood that the $10 application fee may also come up for discussion...