Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked for rotation. Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...' If, while dining at a friend's house you wish more dessert, merely stare at your empty plate until someone catches on. DO NOT say, 'How about seconds on the slop?' " Author McMillan refrains from printing "Personal Manners" instructions on addressing live young white women...
...much of the high quality of the performance comes through on the recording that you wish there had been less luck and more plan. The anti-acoustical Lowell dining hall is the worst offender. The choruses which had clarity both in words and accompaniment have lost much of their color. Presumably the beautiful "Hush ye pretty warbling choir" and "Happy we" were not suitable for release, for there is no other excuse for omitting them...
...left New York aboard a U.S. ship, bound for his homeland after almost three months in New York as chief of the Soviet delegation to the U.N. His parting tip to three porters who carried his mountain of luggage aboard: $40. His parting words on shipboard: "I want to wish all the 'American people a Happy New Year...
...Experiment in International Living was founded 17 years ago by Mr. Donald B. Watt in the town of Putney, Vermont, which today has a population of only 300. Watt's wish was to change "a world of nations, caught in a web of hatred, suspicion, and mistrust, into a world in which people feel a community of spirit." He makes it clear that the Experiment is "not a language school, it is no joy ride, and it has no axe to grind...
...historical" size of a department as an operative concept is peculiar to Harvard. The nation's oldest institution of higher education does not wish to be over-influenced by trends, by changing emphasis and intensity of student interest...