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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garrulous enthusiasm of a born raconteur." Critics applauded the latest addition to Bratby's usual drab cast of bohemian friends and family-Brigitte Bardot. Bratby claims no speaking acquaintance, picked her out of a magazine one day when a model failed to show. Of Bratby's current Bardot pictures, Critic Newton noted: "He has not yet begun (and perhaps he never will begin) to learn how to brood. Profundity is therefore beyond his present reach. [But] daydreaming is at least one step on the way from seeing to brooding...
...requirement envisioned by the founders of the General Education program. In the "Redbook"--General Education in a Free Society--on which the original program was based, the authors expressed the hope that eventually the composition course would be absorbed by other courses in the program. Wilcox suggested that the current change might be the first step towards such an assimilation...
...convulsed the audience with humorous tales of the history of science at the University and the Harvard chemical tradition which "almost antedates chemistry as a science." Speaking as a "voice from the past," he compared the drive to build additional laboratory facilities after the First World War with the current expansion. Pusey also drew an historical analogy with 1928, when Mallinckrodt opened, and praised the "close cooperation" of the government and the University which made the new building possible...
...order to increase faculty participation, PBH has announced that, if 90 members contribute in the current drive, it will allow them to join the blood bank, where not only they, but also their families to the third generation, will be eligible for free blood whenever they need it. Only two faculty members donated last year...
...huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet-the possibilities of symbolic interpretation are almost limitless, without ever offering complete certainty as to the "real" meaning. But an electric current of excitement runs through the poem, in which the meaning is sensed before it is understood...