Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless mob of 250 sniffed sympathetically. Luckless Lynn apparently was the only man in the English Department who was willing to talk about modern American literature...
...first effects of the technologicial age became apparent when scholars learned the machine best wringed out prose composed in the United Kingdom, composed preferably, before the start of the 19th century. Sadly, America was a land of haste and the automatic washer-dryer, and the work of American prosewriters proved too crude, too harsh, for the Eliot machine's sensitivities. No fools, the scholars did not be-tray their beloved machine, and respected its sensitivities; they didn't bother much with trying to process American literature, particularly modern American literature...
Over in the Fogg, H.M. Jones talks about American Literature from 1890-1920 in English 170a, while Professor Hughes studies the intellectual history of 20th century Europe (Hist. 134) in Harvard 1. Freud, Pareto, and the existential denizens of "Les Deux Magots" will be discussed...
...sampling of reaction from local high school principals indicated a general approval of the recent report, "The American High School Today," by James B. Conant, President-emeritus...
Carmian is the writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...