Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote from Ben Franklin, the founder of the University, appears: "The instruction of youth is one of those employments which to the public are most useful; it ought therefore to be esteemed among the most honorable. Its successful exercise does not, however, always meet with the reward it merits, except in the satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able men for the service of their country...
...There will be no regulations on weekends, except for the Saturday football games when 'dink' and button regulations will be strictly enforced...
Mayor: The ceremonial head of the city, he is elected from the City Council by a vote of its members, and presides at its meetings. Except as parliamentarian, however, he possesses no position of leadership, as his vote counts no more than that of any other Councillor, and since he has only a Councillor's responsibility for initiating action. By 18 years' precedent, Cambridge mayors serve only one two-year term...
...reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich he'd be if he owned anything except the million dollars waiting for him in Switzerland...
...cell is bare except for the customary simple furniture, the hopeless messages from past prisoners scrawled on the walls and an overhead light that (perhaps like reason or the world itself) is naggingly off-center. The prisoner's name is Cincinnatus C., and he is under sentence of death for a misdeed that is not described; he only suspects that his crime is "opacity"-that stubborn, unknowing refusal to bare his soul which has always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell...