Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaks at Harvard does not mean that Harvard in any way endorses his views or even that the organization involved does. If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak to a Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's official endorsement. Furthermore it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, others Senator Taft. Still others would bar anti-vivisectionists or opponents of birth control...
...then, through the dust bowl called Briggs Cage, you saw the shoes. They weren't sharply spiked for baseball or track and they weren't half dainty enough for ballet...
Leads & Eyes. If so, the News editors weren't the only ones. In his weekly Mirror column, veteran (65) Editor Jack Lait put a finger on one trouble with postwar journalism. "The emphasis on 'leads' . . . seems to have largely evaporated," he wrote. "In my journalistic salad days reporters sweated to create dramatic, amusing or literary leads ... It was a problem of clutching the reader by the throat, quick, and giving it to him while his eyes bulged...
What with the hundreds of open stalls for big dogs and closed stalls for little ones, the show took up most of the Hall. We weren't quite sure why they boxed in the little hounds. Either they are uniformly vicious little dogs or their loving owners suspected that Boston dignitaries were not above shoplifting a champion Chihuahua to show the folks back home...
Donald Oenslager's single set, the dismal orderly room, is so startlingly realistic that anyone who had experiences roughly like those shown in the play can't help remembering that they weren't so very funny when they really happened. Nevertheless, the final test of a comedy is the audience reaction. At the Wilbur, they were rolling in the aisles...