Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Corporation stated it would regard present membership in the Communist Party as "grave misconduct, justifying removal" and that use of the Fifth Amendment is "entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth." Nevertheless it ruled that these three teachers should be retained. It found that Dr. Furry was "not now under the domination of the Communist Party," that Dr. Markham "is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," and as to Mr. Kamin, that "About July, 1950, he ceased writing for the Daily Worker and dropped...
...After interviewing Taruc, General Vargas gave his own estimate that Huk strength in the field has fallen from a high of 10,000 in 1948 to less than 1,500. Huk"sympathizers," some of them starved into despair by the government's ruthless pursuit, others attracted by the government's offer of more land and security, have probably been reduced from around a million to about...
Augie's peccadillo reforms him. He is soon spending days in the unaccustomed pursuit of earning a living, and nights in his own bed. Before long, he qualifies for adoptive fatherhood. Then, to his horror, the agency gives him his own child. For a while poor Augie sees himself cast as a tragic Greek hero being buffeted by Fate, but a surprise ending enables him to become a normal, happy commuter buffeted only by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...
...undergraduate between the social and intellectual sides of his community. As at any small fraternity college, part of his existence must be actively devoted to mere good mixing and congeniality. In joining a fraternity he pledges to uphold such living, and yet another existence must be devoted to serious pursuit of his studies...
...chase scene, when the pursuit drives Danny into a theater, the audience witnesses what is surely the first performance of a classic ballet that ever included a cakewalk. Biggest laugh: Danny, posing as a British explorer at one point, is asked what he thought of the Himalayas. For an instant he looks flummoxed, then casually pip-pips: "Loved him. Hated...