Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT ANY POSSIBLE IMPRESSION ROBERT ROBINSON'S ["UNEQUIVOCAL JUDGMENTS" ABOUT AMERICANS-TIME, NOV. 13] REPRESENTATIVE OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY PLAYERS' VIEWS. THE REST OF US WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIM AND TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EARNESTLY AND RESPECTFULLY THANK ALL THOSE CITIZENS OF A GREAT AND HOSPITABLE NATION WHO DID SO MUCH TO MAKE OUR VISIT THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE...
...Russian Desk also has a special reference library-starting with a complete set of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, whose 65 volumes were removed from Russia by one of our former Moscow bureau chiefs. The first of these useful volumes was printed in 1926, the last in 1947, and complete sets in U.S. private hands are rare. They are especially handy for documenting Soviet life and thought. Even the personal fortunes of the Russian editors of the first volume are instructive: all but one have died, been killed, imprisoned or have disappeared...
...problems of existing advising system. At present the central Dean's office is the catch all of students' troubles. Since the advising system as a whole is comparatively now and has little central organization, the final weight in all problems falls upon the head of undergraduate students. This great responsibility, the report argues, keeps the Dean of the College from functions which are more important...
There has always been a lyrical and escapist streak in Jamon Thurber. IN the midst of his satire and anecdote--all very much of this world--it has showed itself quietly, in a series of children's books and fairy stories: "Many Moons," "The Great Quilow," "The White Door." The latest in this line is "The 13 Clocks...
...enough of this contrast. "The 13 Clocks" is another magnificent book, with all the sparkle of Thurber at his best. Amid the humor and the horse play there are lines of great beauty ("The Princess Saralinds. . . were serenity brightly like the rainbow." "Somewhere a clock dropped a stony chime into the night") One can enjoy this story for its verbal felicity alone...