Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romance Language Department established a similar set-up this week for its concentrators. Three full courses required of all concentrators will have to be taken graded. But students can fill out the rest of their requirements in the field with as many pass-fail courses as they wish...
They usually get their wish. The co author of that salacious little novel Candy was billed as Maxwell Kenton until he was unmasked as Terry Southern. Mark Epernay was supposed to have written the pseudoscientific McLandress Dimension, a book measuring the ego capacity of prominent people...
...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
...either widows, divorcees or spinsters. And to a woman, they are enthusiastic about their experience. Dr. Mary B. Lane, professor of education at San Francisco State College and a childless widow of 56, now has a three-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter. Says she: "I wish I had the resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year-old Greek orphan and his nine-year-old sister...
...values, such as myself, who could talk to Volunteers as I did in Bogota concerning the America they were returning to. Any such effort to make the Volunteer experience more intensely reflective will run into resistance both from the pressure of daily tasks and from any Volunteer's own wish to plunge into activity. For some Volunteers, the keeping of diaries might be a way to keep in touch with what is happening to them when they are of touch with the ordinary channels through which they shared experience back home. But other Volunteers might find the keeping of diaries...