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...name; in either case, it is a discretionary matter. Nine Association members and Godfrey Lowell Cabot '88 prepared to ask Attorney General Fingold for permission to hall Harvard into Court. Support of this suit, in fact, was the immediate point of the Association. Numbering roughly 600, its members reflect twenty-eight states, D. C. and Canada. Officers of the two national garden club groups are on its lists as well as other famous botanists Many a good old Boston name is represented, from a number of Cabots to professor Samuel Eliot Morlson. Women are predominant...
...question . . . or condemn an official action of the body of which he is a member, or of the constituent committees which are working arms of the Senate, in proper language. But he has no right to impugn the motives of individual Senators responsible for official action, nor to reflect upon their personal character for what official action they took. If the rules and procedures were otherwise, no Senator could have freedom of action to perform his assigned committee duties. If a Senator must first give consideration to whether an official action can be wantonly impugned by a colleague as having...
...with traces of gold around the collar and that Christ's garment turned out to be flame red, a symbol of His sacrifice. [Before the cleaning job, it was a dirty lime.] In the landscape some bright blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate or deep red brilliance of the wines shines transparently in the glasses. [All this] must have struck Leonardo's contemporaries as a marvel of naturalism. Even now, after a century of Impressionism, he still seems...
...immense respect for his colleagues in all branches of the social sciences; the "credit lines" in his books reflect the warmth of a man who is really grateful for information. He will send copies of his work to scores of people before publication, noting all reactions but not necessarily following suggestions. He refuses to join the high-level theorists in their contempt for interviewers and other spade-workers. Nor will he join in the contempt of the fact-workers for the lofty insights of the theorists. He believes in both, and works at a level between them, using both...
Psychologist Plank would not go so far as to say that science-fiction writers are "crazy" because they reflect schizophrenic trends. Rather, he argues, these signs are becoming more conspicuous in a mechanized civilization. Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate...