Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Student Council is not God. This statement will astonish nobody except-the Harvard Student Council. Last Week that august organization, acting as if it were authorized and sanctioned from on high, held a closed meeting at which it removed Robert C. Fisher from the Council-operated NSA delegation. And it brought out of its closed session such an opaque and vague list of reasons--apparently based to some extent on information that has never been made public--that the student body, who elected Fisher, received no adequate idea of why he was impeached. Probably his impeachment was justified...
Radcliffe undergraduates in Harvard surroundings astonish almost no one in 1948. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences seems to endure--perhaps in some cases even to enjoy--teaching members of both sexes. Administrative circles have gone so far as to mix females into seating plans instead of blocking them into a corner. In fact, academically speaking, there remains only one prominent sore spot in Harvard-Radcliffe relations: libraries...
...going to say something which will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany. In this way only can France recover the moral and cultural leadership of Europe. There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany...
...coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
...Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish the good Watson merely for theatrical pleasure...