Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six years of working at it, Biographer Lord, a Wallace admirer and himself a farm writer and editor, takes refuge in mystical pronouncements that are as ponderous as they are unrevealing. Writes Lord: Wallace is "no chance growth. The product of an extraordinary heritage and upbringing, deeply-almost broodingly-aware of a genetic continuity in his every act, he lives, moves, and grows as a continuing force...
...some 24 million Catholics to avoid the picture if it disapproves. Protestants and Jews in the Los Angeles area have also questioned Duel's morals. Now an aroused group of churchmen, including all denominations, seems to be shifting the offensive to include not only Hollywood's public product, but also Hollywood's private life (TIME, March...
Pulitzer Prize Historian Herbert Agar (The People's Choice) has condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
...Speak For Yourself" is an original musical comedy written entirely by students. Craig Gilbert '47 is the author of a script "which will probably cause many to stop tracing their ancestry back to the Mayflower," according to publicity director Martin Shwartz 2G. The show's 17 songs are the product of composers John Knowles '47 and Courtney Crandall '46, with theatrical president William Scudder '48 providing all lyrics...
...product educationally of Melrose High, M.I.T., and the Harvard Graduate School, Leonard knows the business of examinations from all points of view. The ideal proctorial attitude was expressed in a statement of his recently: "Though it doesn't happen very often, every time a fellow here cribs, we want to be sure that our system couldn't have prevented...