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...rejecting the contest, spokesmen for the Houses, their costumes eloquently endorsing their words, condemned the idea as "un-Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen...
...that the agreements will be ratified in their respective countries, the Greek-Turkish agreement is a major step forward. Potential dangers are certainly much better than present killings; perhaps the continual rounds of bomb-throwings, executions, and curfews, shall cease. The events of the week can be cheered with vigor, albeit with caution...
...William Smith Clark the ambitious growth would be satisfying; so would the new student union (the first one in Japan) and the faculty-exchange program carried on with the University of Massachusetts. But possibly even more pleasing would be the sight of young Japanese scholars pursuing knowledge with Yankee vigor. When frostbite threatens in a Hokkaido lecture hall-outside temperature sometimes reaches 40° below and that indoors is often only somewhat more temperate-the sufferer rushes outdoors, rubs his ears hard with snow, then bundles right back to resume his notetaking...
...course is honest without the courage of financial prudence. But we cannot afford to bankrupt the national conscience to serve the ends of political bookkeeping." He assured the U.S. that he and his party stood ready to save it from a Government marked by "a deficit of vigor, a deficit of confidence, and a deficit of will...
...distinction can be made (and, in a sense, it cannot), the main interest of Twelfth Night is poetic rather than human. The characters lack the idiosyncratic vigor of Shakespeare's best comic characters, and very little that they say or do is very funny. Their emotions are never intense; the lovers, with all their pleading and scorning, their smiling and sighing and blinking back tears, are, as has been pointed out before, less in love with each other than with love itself. The play's charm derives very largely from its rather limp-wristed, but very pretty, love poetry...