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...famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle-aged men and clergymen-respond to her dubious coquetry . . . agile studio eyes . . . dimpled depravity...
...Northern man at your cover of Jan. 24. ... I am not sure of my figures, but anyone who has been south of the Mason & Dixon line can realize the overwhelming predominance of the black population and the necessity of having some form of law to which they will respond...
...them to set in motion this spring an organization that will give the Class of 1942 the ground works for further development. If one or two boys were chosen from each Hall to hunt out all those interested, the chances are that the rest of the Freshman class would respond, and an invaluable Freshman institution might be started...
...Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece on Writing for Money, printed in the Saturday Review last year...
Those departments not aware of the importance of an examination which will force the student to think, not to respond automatically with a catalogue of facts, and which will be marked by fair rules would learn much by looking at the methods of the History and Economics departments. In Economics A, for example, two or three meetings of the twenty odd instructors are held to work out questions and rough answers. They are especially concerned with the kind of answer they will get from the student and form their questions on this basis. The department rightfully prides itself...