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...answer to his critics, such as Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '28 who branded him as a publicity-seeker and called his confiscation motion "probably the most asinine proposal ever brought before a legislative body," Vellucci has this to say: "Sometimes administrators become procrastinators--that goes both for Dr. Pusey and for city manager Curry. Sometimes they intend to do something, but they don't get around to doing it. The only way to shake up the administration of Harvard is to use the tactics I have been using...
Hail to Sol Randall: iconoclast, philosopher, non-seeker after the ranking deity of the U.S.: Success. Sol correctly senses the futility of making a success out of marriage with a social-climbing, materialistic female, so he faces the breakup without regret. . . . The ills that beset the Randalls can be found to a greater or lesser degree in so many U.S. marriages and in Yolaine's edict: "No money...
Genial Generalities. The reception in Calcutta provided the final crashing chord to a barnstorming tour which had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any campaigning vote-seeker. But while Moscow's good-will ambassadors swelled with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart...
...continent in the 17th century, it was not love at first sight, as is shown by the case of Roger Williams, who founded America's first Baptist church (though he abandoned the Baptist persuasion within a few months to become a "Seeker" or Independent). He landed in Boston in 1631, having come from England under the impression that he was a Puritan, but almost at once he was at loggerheads with Boston's Puritan clergy...
...Christopher and Cathie Hornbrook, whose growth to maturity forms the basis of the narrative, are both orphaned children living in the home of their stern and God-fearing Aunt Sarah. Cathie holds a dream that her father, in reality an unreliable adventure-seeker, will return to her as a rich and glorious king. She never completely rejects this dream until the moment of her death. Tom is both disturbed by and attracted to Cathie throughout their childhood, and at times almost abandons himself to her him has been a long time in the brewing...