Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Roman Ham. But it is Bushman's personality which has endeared him to Chicago. The public loves Bushman because Bushman loves them-he is one of the most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
...their lot. They have even staged several brief strikes, although strikes are illegal in the People's democracy. Writes Schmidt wryly: "[They] have observed, however, that while in the old days they could damn or even strike against their boss, now that they are working for themselves, that sort of thing is dealt with ... as sabotage...
...much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...
...lack of influence in the legislative and official life of this state should spur its students and faculty to careful introspection. An assent to this view was more specific. It suggested that Harvard make available its faculty for adult education programs and that the Business School broaden the sort of men its teaches...
...classes will carry away some strangely assorted memories of the College. The chow (or book) line became for many an ogre so clear-cut that they can no longer stand in line for anything. Losing to Yale grew to be another unhappy habit. These are not, of course, the sort of memories one should carry away--one should remember the thud of shoe against pigskin, or the setting sun casting its last golden rays across the Charles. But they are the peculiar matters that stick in the front of the mind...