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...picture interested students for its Michelangelesque distortions (as in Tarquinius' leg), its hint of El Greco pattern in the nervous, lightning-like highlights on the strewn drapery, and such tricky details as the falling cushion and pearls, one of which is caught symbolically in Lucretia's shift...
Aside from the multiplicity of pressing questions raised by the shift in trend from man vs. beast relations to man vs. woman aggression, the serious problem raised is this: what will be Harvard's place in the new order? It is surely to be hoped that men of the crimson will prove fully as red-blooded and virile as the sons of San Jose State and B. U. But if they aren't, if a Harvard man fails to surpass the B. U. mark of 15 kisses in 15 tries, then the apprehension of the alumni, now gathered...
...Riggs, is not rowing this year, and as a result Bolles has been quite hard put to find someone to all the position. For a while there was a question of whether Walt Kernan was going to be able to fill the post or whether Bolles would have to shift Dud Talbot from the three position, but Kernan seems to have fitted in well...
...revision to aid recovery is an idea of Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee. (Most correspondents considered this camouflage to cover a shift by the President away from the viewpoint of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who, with Under Secretary John Hanes, were the first oracles of revision-for-Recovery...
...first foreigner (except for members of the tiny Dutch colony at Deshima) to live in Japan since the expulsion of the Catholic missionaries in 1638, Harris had no battleships to back him. The State Department left him to shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around, Commodore Perry notwithstanding. They asked him to go home on the ship he came on. When he refused, they set a cheeky guard around his miserable house, prohibited his traveling more than seven miles from the dismal fishing village of Shimoda, gave him diseased chickens to eat, picked on his Chinese...