Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Lionel Trilling praised the book, speculated about its satirical intent: "To what end is a girl-child taught . . . to consider the brightness and fragrance of her hair, and the shape of her body, and her look of readiness for adventure? Why, what other end than that she shall be a really capable airline hostess?" In Esquire, Dorothy Parker succumbed to Nabokov's charms before the reader's eyes: "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book-all right, then-a great book...
Denis D. Barber '60, chairman of the committee appointed last week to investigate the charges of "illegality" in the matter, said the move was "done in bad taste" and effected "a radical departure from the original intent...
...that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand it, and possibly to explore interests held in common by the two societies. The fact that some of the questions were asked merely with intent of confirming previously held opinions and prejudices, not only illustrates bad manners, but is indicative of the fact that a few American students have lost sight of a value on which our democracy and particularly this University is premised. This is a belief in the value of dispassionate, rational inquiry...
...self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which turned the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament into an anti-appeasement club has completely perverted the group's non-political nature and destroyed its original intent. This internal reversal, which was managed by the president and specially-elected members, should not be dismissed with nothing more than a smile at the political cleverness which supplanted the supposed naivete of the founders. The incident is hardly funny, and even less so because the same trick theoretically could be perpetrated on any other college organization...
...middle-aged but still attractive heroine of this excellent novel by the wife of an Italian diplomat. "Mamma" Cossati is an intimidated, tradition-bound Roman housewife. She is intent on one thing: to maintain a perfect reputation for hard work and for saintly devotion to her family and her gentle husband, an underpaid bank official. Yet her problems cannot be dismissed as resulting merely from poverty and Old World attitudes about a woman's place. When she dreams guiltily of "leaving the dishes in the sink, the laundry unwashed, the beds unmade." or when she tries...