Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...even more illogical to flunk girls who have missed some gym classes or failed to make up cuts because of sickness or injury. Yet there are several cases of girls who repeated one or more entire quarters of gym because they spent the wrong days in the Radcliffe Health Center. A few bad breaks can keep a girl on the playing-fields till she gets her diploma...
Poskanzer's talk is being sponsored by the Harvard Educational Society, which was formed three weeks ago because its founders felt there was a lack of practical knowledge of education and teaching in the University. The club's purpose is to find out what is wrong with the present system...
Champagne for Caesar (Harry Popkin; United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture winds up looking even sillier...
...Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, Sinclair proves his old admirers at least halfway wrong. In this happily Buddless parody of Richardson's famous classic written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life...
...Harries-and, along with her, Author Sinclair's happy new vein-is best summed up in one of Pam's nicest remarks: "She writes letters to the newspapers and to important persons and tells them what they are doing that is wrong...