Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brick veneered with half a century's grime, looks more like a police station than a newspaper office. The Star's front page, a somber, forbidding block of type only faintly relieved by narrow headlines and a picture or two, has all the eye appeal of Webster's dictionary...
...word that trips lightly from the tongues of connoisseurs and often falls flat in company is the term "genre" (rhymes roughly with honor), a harmless, precise and useful term from the French. Webster defines genre art as that "in which subjects of everyday life are treated realistically." A brilliant exhibition of 37 American genre paintings from 1835 to 1885 is now touring the country under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. Called "A Hundred Years Ago," it opens next week in New Britain, Conn...
...majority of the college seems to favor establishing a coffee house, Janet Webster '60, president of the Radcliffe Student Government Association, said recently. However, several girls living in Holmes Hall have expressed opposition to the project...
...review board, composed of two Radcliffe deans and Janet Webster '60, president of the Student Government Association, will meet Monday to discuss the petition. The SGA has already voted to grant WHRB's request, and Miss Webster said last night that the vote probably will be endorsed...
Castro made one of the most startlingly audacious speeches ever heard in a courtroom. Secretly printed and distributed throughout the island under the title La Historia Me Absolvera (History Will Absolve Me), it combined the tragic hopelessness of Daniel Webster debating the devil before a jury of condemned souls in Benet's short story, the irony of Marc Antony's appeal to the Roman mobs, and parts of the political theory of John of Salisbury, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and the Cuban national hero, Jose Marti. Had the Cuban island more significance in world affairs, Castro's 60,000 word...