Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsibility: how to marry off his none-too-attractive daughter. Three years ago when a young member of the local Communist Party made tentative matrimonial advances. Potential Father-in-Law Murah unhesitatingly tossed aside all his religious scruples to promote the match. He joined the party himself and, in utter defiance of Moslem law, allowed his new pagan comrades to build three small houses and a coffee shop for their own use within the mosque's walled grounds. The Moslem elders who had hired Pak Murah screamed "sacrilege.'' Pak Murah only sneered. The Moslems took the case...
...twelve stories. The Cardinal's Third Tale makes its Gothic point with perhaps the neatest and most ironic flourish. Lady Flora Gordon, a handsome Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind...
...both interesting and upsetting to travel about this large country to ask what they think a Harvard man really is. Around the corner from the House an outspoken teenager from East Boston will utter a few expletives and say that all Harvard men are, to put it mildly, snobs who wear vests and have ridiculous accents. And in the Midwest a mild fellow will strongly declare that Harvard is filled with shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard...
Harvard had many individual meanings, but for most the freedom it offered, "the right to utter" was one of its two major contributions to their lives; the other was the close contact with great teachers. Most of the essays are the relation of experiences with faculty members. This is in marked contrast to the two students recently at Harvard who commented on the grinding competition, the large amount of studying, and the activities. The only mention of faculty contact was that there wasn't nearly enough of it. A Harvard of teachers has become a Harvard of books...
...never fully relaxed in public, Britain's Queen is not gifted at putting people at their ease. Her conversational ploys are stiffly predictable and her smile too controlled to be encouraging. But as the stilted gambits of formal conversation begin to freeze into an awful possibility of utter silence in her presence, the Prince strolls up, speaks, and all the tight, polite smiles, including that on the Queen's own peaches-and-cream face, widen into the kind of relaxed good humor that warms hearts...