Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind. A new theory now gaining acceptance is that the best elementary language teacher is a native of the country on which the course is focused. Such a man has a better insight into the language and will often do a better job than an American scholar twice his age...
...case of the student, by the time he reaches college age and unless he is contemplating a career in the foreign service or in the Berlitz school, he feels that going through the routine steps of learning another language is nothing but a crashing bore. If I really want to learn another language, he can say, I can go over to France or Germany, spend a summer there, and by the time I get back, I will be able to speak rings around my less fortunate companions in French...
...major Boston theatre is housing a good serious play. On the basis of Look Back in Anger, John Osborne is the best prose playwright in England, and has few rivals on this side of the Atlantic. He writes from his guts as well as from his brains, in an age when few playwrights have either...
JUST how interesting Homer's earnest art was to remain, no Victorian could have guessed. In his day he seemed strong but crude. Now. in an age of infinitely cruder painting, it is the strength of Homer's honesty that tells. This week, 48 years after Homer's death. Washington's National Gallery is honoring his memory with a big retrospective show. The 241 pictures proved to the hilt that Homer's passion was for realizing life as he saw it. and as forthrightly as he possibly could. Said Museum Director John Walker...
Modern New Zealand geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...