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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody has a good word for Lamont, especially during Spring Reading Period. Credit must be given where it is due however, and it must be noted that, in accordance with janitorial policy, air conditioning has been increased fifty per cent over the term-time norm. Despite the influx of last-minute grinds and unsavory types from outside the College, there have been no cases of suffocation, fainting or heat exhaustion thus far this season...
...divided into rights and lefts. Rubber days were never a happy experience for Vag. He always felt surly, humanly frail, and totally unsuccessful with Radcliffe on such occasions. No matter how effete he managed to appear, no matter what he said of wit, his rubbers always had the last word. They never failed to remind him that he was a twitch. Vag sighed several theatrical sighs, took a few lumbering steps for practice, and gamely set off for class...
Expansion is a dirty word. The Administration would rather use such euphemisms as "natural growth," and "normal expansion of facilities," or, more frequently, not discuss the subject at all. Despite attempts to becloud the issue, however, it is quite clear that the College is committed to a policy of substantial expansion...
...fine Falstaffian fellow when drunk, (he is usually drunk): ready to use his money and power to satisfy the human and animal urges of himself and his friends. It is only during his "attacks" of sobriety that he becomes cold, hard, selfish, and nasty--or, in a word, capitalistic. "Everybody gets along with Puntila," mutters Puntila, potted--but his drunk scenes are written in a vein of repetitive, magniloquent slobbery that makes him more unpleasant drunk than sober...
...every Cezanne here, there is a vision and a philosophy which might be called epical. The works evoke and perpetrate personality via a willing subservience to canons beyond personality, to classicism in its most unadulterated form. So with the Picasso drawing and Small Composition. Both are dry in the word's complimentary sense. They exult in maximum integrity...