Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stress on the Tongue...
...followed the regular order of things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers...
...surgeon, Critics Lipkin & Joseph think, should take time to talk-and listen-to his patient. He should tell the patient just what to expect, stress his chances of surviving the operation and getting well. Sometimes, Lipkin & Joseph charged, the doctor "tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...
...CRIMSON feels that a corrective non-credit half-course, as suggested by the new General Education plan, will be far more effective than the present catch-all English A, especially when accompanied with the proposed increased stress on writing in basic GE courses. The enlarged English C will give students a greater opportunity for creative writing, if they want this instruction in addition to the writing for specific purposes which the GE program will emphasize...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...