Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldies--classical "standards," if you wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...
Representing Dean Bender, Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 told the gathering that "we in University Hall have been following developments concerning NSA for some months and certainly back you in principle and wish you every success...
...until his Sophomore or Junior year will be realize that he has also become a victim of advisory indifference. Then, if he is like the many upperclassmen now in the University, he will regret having taken, or not having taken, certain courses during his Freshman year. He will wish that somebody had told him that all University regulations are flexible, and that there had been no need for him to wallow exclusively in Freshman courses for a year. He will feel that intelligent guidance might have helped him to find a niche in the extracurricular work much earlier than...
...fully in accord with Mr. Yates's statement that: "The average Briton . . . would much prefer to starve quietly than see our loathsome, contemptible politicians conniving with you to tie us up for generations with the dollar loans ..." I only wish there were more average Britons...
...huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them. I wish they could teach me to relax...