Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students...
...filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school...
Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...
...Johnny Papit, Virginia had a powerful, swivel-hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia's wonder boy of nearly a decade ago), but in topflight 1949 football individual stars are as out of style as the scoreless tie and the "60-minute...
...minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...