Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only American taxpayer getting weary of digging deep to pay for foreign aid to countries whose feeble efforts to collect income taxes from their own citizens reminds one of a Keystone Cops comedy [Sept. 1]? It's a shame that Gina Lollobrigida isn't as generously endowed with a sense of civic duty as she is with anatomy...
...Touch of the Poet is the surviving granddaddy of the five destroyed plays that chronicled the doings of an Irish-American family, 1818-1932. Enemies of O'Neill will probably claim A Touch of the Poet could have met a fate similar to its offspring--with no serious loss to the American theatre. But real O'Neill buffs, and our numbers will not be diminished by Harold Clurman's sensitive mounting of it, will find A Touch of the Poet a poignant piece of theatre...
...music faculty members snub their noses at jazz, and moreover thinks this is "strange, and a shame, for well-schooled musicians." The reaction is ironically negative: "they won't accept jazz as an art form, when in a way it's the only art form that's truly American...
...statistics are revealing. The most popular courses in terms of enrollment were American Literature Since 1920, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel, Modern Poetry, and European Intellectual History of the 19th Century, in that order. This subject-matter sounds less than esoteric for a good normal school...
...rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplusage," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...