Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the Square: the Langdell addition had been finished, and the Indoor Athletic Building was well on its way to completion. There was a large open lot across from Gore Hall on which concrete and steel were rising to become House Plan Unit No. 1; on a triangular plot of ground on Memorial Drive a similar scene would soon be transformed into House Plan Unit...
...Dewey was appointed William James Lecturer for the second semester of 1930-31; Russian sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin, now director of the Institute for Creative Altruism, was appointed to head the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics; 90 men were arrested in a mass subway riot; and the charred plot of ground on Soldiers Field where the locker building had stood before the January 14 fire, was being prepared for the new Dillon Field House, designed by the omnipresent Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...
...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...
...incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were...