Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Arthur Freeman 1G, Poet to the Class of 1959, will analyze "Poetry from the Inside Out." This group will discuss the writing of poetry and reading of it in terms of writing. Another seminar, "Literature and the Common Reader," is designed to promote more perceptive reading of poetry and fiction. Piers I. Lewis, teaching fellow in General Education, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, will lead this section...
...Black Whore!" Upon the success of her book Carolina moved out of the favela. Ordering a truck, she loaded up her children, table, two cots, mattresses, bookshelf and six cooking pots. Neighbors surrounded the truck. A man yelled, "You think you are high-class now, you black whore! You write about us and make lots of money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard...
...terms of their own natural talent, they were a couple of rinkydinks who seemed far more at home in the backwaters of the Class D Eastern Shore League-where they both began their professional baseball careers. But both men turned themselves into competent major-league players by dint of hustle and dedicated study of every detail of their trade. As of last week the two men had parlayed their baseball know-how into the managerial success stories of the 1960 season. In the National League, onetime Second Baseman Daniel Edward Murtaugh, 42, was manager of the pennant-bound Pittsburgh Pirates...
...almost totally neglected in the U.S. It is not that Powell is dull; he is indeed much funnier than Proust (though not, perhaps, to the French). It is not that his subject matter is so special as to be outside U.S. sympathy; by now, British upper and middle class life should be less exotic to the U.S. reader than Yoknapatawpha County or the gas-filled pads of Jack Kerouac and his pals. The reason must lie in the curious economics of publishing, which dictate that his current work be issued as a separate novel. It is not a novel...
...alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven't been in Spain for years," says Lady Warminster. "I liked the women better than the men. Of course they all have, English nannies.") Depression, the approach of war, the abdication, all are enacted in the wings; Powell's characters, like those...