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...from the students, and they are enthusiastic. Pusey is not a college character; he is far from backslapping and his relations with students are somewhat distant. But they soon realize that his is Pusey's personal reserve and no indication of coolness toward them. He is appreciative of wit and a clever turn of phrase, but he is essentially a serious person. One long-time friend remarks that he always sees the grave side of things first...
...from the students, and they are enthusiastic. Pusey is not a college character; he is far from backslapping and his relations with students are somewhat distant. But they soon realize that his is Pusey's personal reserve and no indication of coolness toward them. He is appreciative of wit and a clever turn of phrase, but he is essentially a serious person. One long-time friend remarks that he always sees the grave side of things first...
...Russians (which the U.S. does not want until it sees proof by deeds of new Russian good intentions). Why shouldn't the U.S. seize the initiative for a three-power conference? This would not necessarily imply any forthcoming conference with Russia. It would imply what was true, to wit, that there are distressing evidences of diverging Big Three policies, e.g., the Churchill and Attlee speeches, which needed talking over...
...Burrows of GSAS, Tom Lehrer has been convulsing party, night club, and House Dance audiences with the wit and skillful presentations of songs he has composed. He has made his mark as versifier, mathematician, pianist, teacher, and actor, but he evidently needs some further introduction to the Harvard community, because his lately-released recording has been only a moderate success...
Author Machado has his hero flirt with suicide and murder before he turns him into a philosophical autobiographer. What keeps Dom Casmurro from being a routine triangle drama is the wit and wisdom with which Author Machado embroiders his plot. As in Epitaph of a Small Winner, he breaks into his story with joshing asides to the reader, e.g., "Perhaps I'll scratch this out when it goes to press," "Shake your head, reader. Make all the gestures of incredulity there are." His piece of advice hardest to follow: "Throw away this book...