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This is the quotation the President keeps on his desk: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, & astonish the rest. Truly yours. Mark Twain." In addition to the Golden Rule, to which he refers constantly, this seems to be the conscious basis of his policy...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Mr. President | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

...were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Zero Hour | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Nevertheless, there was still plenty to astonish. Some designers-notably Balenciaga-showed dresses, including evening gowns, with split skirts worn over torea-dorlike pantaloons. For the hot-weather trade, Schiaparelli featured an evening dress with a transparent blouse under which only a black brassière was worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Zero Hour | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed Meetings | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Also Reads . . . | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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