Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
...another Faculty attitude comes to mind, which appears unrelated to the present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like...
There's music on Mill Street these nights, gay music, Charleston music. The Boy Friend is on in the Winthrop Junior Common Room, and a well rehearsed band makes the lively score heard as far away as the Lowell court yard. Were the whole production equal to its music we would have perfection; as it is we have almost the next best thing...
Dean von Stade commented that the modernization program, added to the existing differences among dormitories in the Yard, will present a difficult problem in assigning rooms when the new uniform rent schedule for all Freshman goes into effect next Fall...
...film's philosophy is open to debate, its psychiatry to ridicule, but its actors are open only to ovation. Orson Welles, frazzle-pated, barrel-bellied, hollow-eyed, creates a fetching caricature of the great trial lawyer, all fustian and a yard wide. Bradford Dillman, the Straus-Loeb, is alarmingly screw loose and frenzy free. But it is Dean Stockwell, as Steiner-Leopold, who dominates the drama. His intensity and insight do much to explain the character's homosexuality, do something to clarify his fearful crime...