Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooling off, Fredericus Witte wrote a reasoned letter of protest. "I consider it very disturbing," he began, and at that point the Inspector of Direct Taxation, First Section, must have decided to read the sentence again: "I consider it very disturbing if I am not required to pay more. If I pay too little, somebody else suffers for it. That's dishonest." According to Witte's calculations, the tax collector had listed Witte's total income 247 guilders ($64.96) less than it should be, thereby reducing Witte's tax by 42 guilders ($11.05). Witte wanted...
...said, "is whether by simply replacing the present cheerleaders by a group of varsity athletes, the situation is in anyway essentially altered. I think not. Clearly the solution lies in fielding a bevy of attractive young Radcliffe ladies who will command the interest and respect of the entire cheering section...
...whole grouping of biuldings will cost about seven million dollars; the price of the first section, which includes the dining hall and library, will be around four million...
President Goheen gave some reasons in defense of the radical plan of sophomore inclusion for meals and recreation. He observed that, by including them "you reduce the isolation non-club upperclassmen might feel if the only other residents were club upperclassmen; you insure a more representative cross-section of interests and reduce the possibility of the social-dining facilities becoming a haven for any one group; you expose potential new members in the sophomore class to the possibilities inherent in the quadrangle and increase the chances for building a voluntary and satisfied upperclass membership...
...pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the mere recital of the story in Oedipus would have on one." The highly stylized production of Sophocles' masterpiece now playing at the Brattle is sure to be the subject of heated controversy in many a Hum 5 section and coffee house; but the iron anatomy remains which no mode of production can bend. Even those who would have preferred a less liturgical and more "human" enactment of the tragedy, therefore, will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power...