Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...
...aspect of this otherwise laudable program seems to have gone more or less unnoticed. Both the President and everybody else recognize that a return to gracious living will be expensive, but they have publicly assumed that this expense will be met by the alumni and friends of the College who supply the ten million for new construction. The facts are beginning to emerge somewhat differently. It now appears that a large proportion of the expense will be born by the undergraduate, or his parents...
...term must make special applications to the Financial Aid Offices. And even under present conditions the acceptance of this petition does not guarantee that they will find the cheap room they seek. What, we wonder, is going to happen to the scholarship student if we return to gracious living...
...educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice, but if gracious living means social stratification, the price is too high...
...President was very gracious and gave us his assurance that he will not permit the Guard to be destroyed. That satisfied...