Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing of fiction, you know, but I don't write fiction myself," he says. "However, this spring I will give a course in the writing of biography and criticism. A lot of careful thought goes into biographical writing. For instance, how much psychology should one use? I thought I might have the class try writing a composite biography of some minor literary figure. Each student would be assigned two chapters and we would see how it turned...
...addition to the moral issue of depriving needy students of loan money, said the Secretary, it is difficult to assess the political effect of a given institution withdrawing from the program, for the action "might affect some people in a manner not intended...
...Council suggested that the procedures "which have proved satisfactory" in administration of National Science Foundation fellowships--direct contact between applicant and government agency, with no university administration--might be utilized in other federal programs...
...doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology, which might remark on the extraordinary tolerance of Casanova's era, nor 20th century psychology, which might speculate about the libertine's compulsion "to prove something," really equips the reader to understand Casanova...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With some TV sheriffs it's conscience that forbids pulling a gun; with Lloyd Nolan it's arthritis. In Six Guns for Donegan, Nolan plays Sheriff Darrow, whose reputation might have been salvaged more easily by a visit to the town doctor...