Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highbrow art, music and books; Clark fishes and reads the Satevepost. Card games are okay; in the last two weeks Clark has had time for just one go at canasta with his wife (he won). U.S. generals are not supposed to get fat, lest they look bad in uniform; Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European theater, fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care always to ask his jeep driver...
...blue trilby hats . . . cowboy suits . . . bobby socks ... violent tartans ... Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly . . . It is precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform middle age. What could be lovelier than an American girl at 19 or 20 . . .? What more dreadful than the American woman of 40 with her horn-rimmed spectacles, her leathery skin, her strident voice, her rushing about to lectures and committees, her general air of running the country and . . . culture...
...thing, asking MacArthur to give up pay, earned in heroic service, would raise a storm of protest from his admirers. For another, trying to get him out of uniform against his will would be troublesome. On top of all that, President Truman made it obvious at his press conference last week that he was delighted at the spectacle of the Republican generals squabbling among themselves, in or out of uniform, and would do nothing to head them...
...fourth problem still lacks any solution. The departments and the Senior Tutors must decide what is the real purpose of sophomore tutorial. Is it to be uniform and supplementary to a specific course or should it merely seek to arouse intellectual curiosity? The five departments concerned have diverging plans...
This past term the Department experimented with a uniform tutorial curriculum and it probably will be continued next fall for sophomores because "you can be sure that people will read certain important books in their sophomore year." Junior sessions will be arranged around different elective topics...