Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...French rearmament had the backing of all important parties except the Communists. But financing it, even with a whopping U.S. handout (see INTERNATIONAL), made fiscal changes imperative. New taxes seemed necessary, including heavier, more equitably distributed levies on corporations and farmers. With parliamentary elections a few months off, the Assembly balked in political fright...
...copy is not good. The latest Poon is a one-gag magazine; it is a take-off on other college "humor" publications, stressing frat house life on the coed campus of "Harvard U." This may be amusing. But except for some good old two-line jokes and some bad, old (and very funny) dirty cartoons, nothing in the new Poon is really new. The blurred, self-conscious pictures are still there. So are the articles about people named Sam Mortiz and Elmer Rocco and fraternities called A. D. and P. C. Even when it tries, the Poon has trouble writing...
...Except at Princeton, which has eating clubs, and Harvard, which hasn't, fraternities are important to the social life of the Ivy League. At Dartmouth or Amherst or Williams membership in a fraternity can make, for many people, the difference between drudgery and delight...
...main points they will discuss in whether to march to Dillon Field House or to the traditional Indoor Athletic Building. "If we hold it at Dillon," Butler said, "there is a chance for a big bonfire and more space, since this rally will probably be the biggest this year except for the Yale rally...
...sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...