Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's a man on Linnean Street with a bona fide grudge against Radcliffe's morals. He's a janitor, and he can't get his work done because there's always some naked girl standing in her window with the shades up, distracting him. Not content with exhibiting the precision of her indubitably lovely mind, it would seem...
Publish or Perish. What is true of Oklahoma can also be said of university presses across the U.S. No longer content with murky monographs on the mud turtle, or the academic jargon of cloistered professors, the presses have become favorites of U.S. readers. This year the 50 members of the Association of American University Presses will produce 1,300 new books on subjects ranging from art to zoology. In their own field-adult, hardcover nonfiction-universities will account for one out of every four original books in the U.S. and sell them for about $14 million, more than double their...
SUPRAD investigators have proposed a compromise for the Newton Junior High Schools. They have decided to try teaching in academically homogeneous groups, the content of science, mathematics, certain foreign languages, the specialized aspects of art, music, industrial arts and home economics, and the remedial aspects of English...
...proposal also suggests that, "for reasons of human relations and group morale," the subjects of social studies, physical education, the common learnings content of industrial arts, home economics, art, music, and certain aspects of English, are best taught in heterogeneous groups...
Heartbreak House has no plot, and its wit flashes, as its farce pops, only intermittently. Shaw's characters are too idiosyncratic for Heartbreak House to be, as he intended it, "cultured, leisured England before the war." But the form of Checkhov and the style and content of Shaw combine in a haunting semi-darkness that retains its excitement when the hard bright light of ordinary Shaw tires the mind's eye. Its primary quality is this atmosphere, which requires exactly the sort of orchestration of every element that Mr. Clurman has notably failed to provide...