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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for it. But when South Carolina rebels fired on Fort Sumter, secession became a fighting word in the North, and nothing more was heard of Tri-lnsula...
...genius lies in verbal manipulation, and the play's verse, ornate and intensive in itself, abounds with witty repartee and with imagery sustained throughout and amplified. The characters, each in his own way, fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...
...athletics are to remain the province of less than the entire student body, they must become as nearly self-supporting as possible. After all, subsidy is a nasty word, and an expensive burden for many students...
...congratulate the Deans and the University Administration for attracting better qualified students. Yet at the same time we would be willing to take their word for it that we are all getting better, for the sake of raised academic standards. Daniel M. Musher...
...more so when the exhibition's "naturalistic" section illuminates a paradox which unites these two emotional extremes. Suddenly all the shouting stops, all the drama ends and rigor mortis begins to set in. The least trickle of spontaneous life is suddenly replaced with the dimmest pedantry. The right word is not naturalistic but academic. Here is a depressing union of the accomplished hand and the earthbound...