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With an experienced line that may be the best in the League, and a carload of very promising backs, the Crimson may well be the team to beat in 1960, even with Holy Cross as a first opponent and the now semi-automatic loss to Brown assumed. Harvard football looks ready to continue its upswing...
...Julie Harris as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
Stuart Symington's will to victory traces back to a special kind of poverty that he endured in childhood-not the numbing poverty of the slum poor but the stinging poverty of the semi-broke genteel. At the time of Stu's birth, his father was a teacher of Romance languages at Massachusetts' Amherst College. But he soon quit as a result of a quarrel with the college president, moved his family to New York, where he studied law at night, scraping a living by translating documents for export-import firms. A few years later, the family...
Streak of Respect. In 1938, after two years as president of Baltimore's Rustless Iron & Steel Co., followed by a year of semi-retired dabbling in various ventures, Symington was looking around restlessly for something to do. At the urging of Wall Street Investment Banker David Van Alstyne Jr., he agreed to go to the rescue of St. Louis' ailing Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (fans, small motors) in return for $24,000 a year, plus a stock-option deal. Emerson was deep in the red and battered by labor troubles, had barely managed to survive a bitter...
...child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate. Not to think in English: In a nutshell, this epitomizes the aim of modern teachers of the modern languages...