Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From its vantage point at one of the myriad corners of a shrinking "hub," the CRIMSON has an excellent view of occurrences both in its own backyard and in the world at large. During the year, its editors, by taking a long view of the former and a dim view of the latter, comment on both. For the benefit of alumni and anyone else who may be interested, it presents here the high points of its year's editorial policies...
Here is Cambridge, 4,355 undergraduates are bravely filling out myriad forms, secure only in their knowledge of one dismal fact; next year at this time, pre-supposing that spring will come, they will be able to hire out as experienced biddies. Recruiting sergeants in the Central Square booths predict a 50 percent rise in enlistments as many of the 4,355 lose their last remaining reason for remaining here after the winter examinations...
Simone de Beauvoir had not seen so many stars since Jean-Paul Sartre crowned her Queen of Existentialism with the canopy of a bed one bibulous night in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Now her plane from Paris was over New York, whose myriad lights were so brilliant that it was as if "all the stars in the sky were rolled out over the ground." Still dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked...
...Center began a special program of publication. Its myriad volumes and journals have complete documentation and absolutely no bias. The publications speak scientifically and sanely, thus incurring the wrath both of the old temperance people, who prefer the fanatical scream, and of the alcohol distributors, for whom even a whisper is too loud...
...near illiterates. They do not read to enlighten themselves, or to inform, or even to entertain. If it hasn't got pictures, most of them are stuck. What is the result? In a first-class bureaucracy like the modern army or navy or air force, with its myriad regulations which one must be able to interpret and analyze to get along, we have boys who do not know what they are doing, or why, and never will...