Word: arene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much better preparation should score higher than, or at least as high as the others. Yet at Harvard Preppies are the ones who score lower. Whether or not they are really less intelligent, judging by Harvard's criteria, they are indeed less intelligent. They may be smarter, but they aren't showing it according to Harvard's indicators. What about narture and inheritance? It has not made them as impressive academically. It is only through long contact with Harvard that by their senior year the preppies do almost as well as the pubbies. Also, the median predicted rank group...
...found my first Dashiell Hammett book by accident. His writing comes in a form that most people don't expect to produce genius--the mystery. Books other than serious novels, it seems, don't "count" in people's minds; at least they aren't remembered and people, in their natural casual arrogance, think of the mystery as a second class literature...
...outsider, it is these things that are the good of America, its true creativity. These are the things about America that you aren't ashamed of, that you can love without guilt...
...McCarthyites have stayed in politics, instead of leaving, as most regular Democartic Party officials claimed they would. Like any segment of a political party, in an off-year their numbers aren't as great as during a Presidential camapign. But with a corps of a new thousand active supporters in each state who come from a wide base, many New Democratic Coalition organizations are waging the most vigorous fight in history to take over their state parties...
...course, one can always depend on the Loeb for meticulous sets and costumes. This time they are executed with the usual expertise by Randall Darwell and Tom Owen respectively. Still, pretty clothes aren't enough to resuscitate what Goldsmith saw as the dying muse of comedy. There are occasionally lively moments in the current Loeb production, but for the most part it is like attending the sick bed of a lingering old grandam...