Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to David E. Owen, head of the General Education Committee, the decision to abandon the experimental course was made by Richards, who could not be reached for comment last night. Its purpose was to integrate freshman composition work into the over-all G.E. program...
...after all, living the good life they like to kid themselves into thinking they are living. "The Kidders"--the title is doubtless trying to suggest--are not only kidding among each other in their bantering way, but are kidding themselves with their constant show of light-hearted abandon...
Probably the most consistent thing about Smith is the way the girls dress. From Sunday night through Friday afternoon, the Smith student dresses with abandon that seems almost frantic. Skirts, except for a brief period around dinner time, are as rare as television in Tibet. Instead, she wears pedal pushers, or, if still in touch with an older tradition, dungarees. Above the waist, she will wear sweater, blouse, or shirt--anything, so long as it is sufficiently aged. If she's a senior, she can throw an academic gown over the whole costume when it normally would need washing...
Lloyd Nolan plays the farmer with a gay abandon that makes one wonder whether he's taking the "Courtin' Time" seriously. At any rate, he does the best job with his part, which is, of course, the best in the show. He kicks and tosses the hand props around, slides down ropes, and does gymnastics. Once or twice he even lapses into his movie-gangster argot. Some of the better supporting performances are handled by Billie Worth, Effle Afton, and Katherine Anderson...
Governor James F. Byrnes's threat to abandon the public school system in South Carolina rather than give up segregation (TIME, March 26) got a sharp answer last week from the only Negro Nobel Prizewinner. Said Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, professor of government at Harvard (on leave) and onetime U.N. mediator in Palestine...