Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although both women felt that it would be difficult to find a remedy for the deficiencies in Radcliffe's intellectual life. Mrs. Newman thought that the tutorial system could be grafted onto the present hall system. She suggested that the college could take over facilities near the quadrangle for housing tutors...
...want to impair the pension rights of any present employee," says Newhouse, "but I want the profits hereafter to be used for the improvement of the physical plant and of the newspapers themselves." As far as Custodian Cook is concerned, Newhouse can whistle somewhere else for a meal-at least until 1967. Said Cook last week: "Newhouse has met a bunch of New England Yankees up here who are just as stubborn...
...estimates that G.N.P. will drop to $502 billion in 1961's first quarter, then turn around to $507 billion in the second quarter, rise to $522 billion in the third. He looks for a drop in the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production from its present 107 to about 100 in 1961's second quarter - with improvement after that. "Talk about G.N.P., and we are not headed for a recession," he says. 'Talk about production...
Elsewhere, Durrell notes that the "Greeks adore partings." So does Durrell. He writes in what might be called the present past tense. He seems to be savoring his island idyl as if the relativities of war, chance and change had already foreclosed it, as indeed they subsequently did. In Durrell's case, the nostalgic mood is an authentic foretaste of his fictional calling, that subtle parting, or detachment, of a novelist from his experience, without which life would never become literature. But while he is still the close observer, Durrell sets down much of the immemorial daily life...
...Bridge over the River Kivai, a Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book, a Free French intelligence agent turns traitor and yet convinces himself that he has won a personal badge of courage...