Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally home after nearly eight years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, Air Force Captain Edward Alan Brudno beamed joyously as he stepped from a plane in Massachusetts and hugged his wife close. "Words like unbelievable, exciting and unreal perfectly describe the fantastic excitement of being reborn," he exulted. That was 16 weeks ago. A month later Brudno's mood had changed. "I knew the initial euphoria would pass, and it has," he confided to the wife of a fellow P.O.W. "I'm feeling pretty depressed these days." Brudno's despair deepened, and last week he ended...
...THIRD trouble-maker in the housing scandal is what Dean Whitlock calls the "unreal" number of students returning next Fall from leave. This is part of the reason "why the House secretaries are tearing their hair out," Austin says. As of June 1, 160 undergraduates had notified the College that they will return to Harvard in the Fall, the highest number to notify the College by that date in Dean Whitlock's memory...
...Unreal Shortage...
...sympathy with the characters could produce a certain amount of dramatic tension even though we already know the final outcome. Unfortunately, the Loeb production lacks even that tension. Part of the failure can be blamed on Brecht's dialogue, which has a stiffness that marks his characters as unreal figures, as mere vehicles for statements. To a large extent, however, the fault lies with the uneven acting. George Hamlin, as Galileo, has a powerful, expressive voice, but he seems to have trouble remembering his lines. Some of his slips and stammers fit in with the image of an absent-minded...
...fairly unreal as it turned out. Favorite Penn came in a dismal third while Harvard edged Columbia by two strokes, 376-378, to assume a commanding position in the Ivy League...