Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other cities and other communities are meeting their problems and coming up with solutions and New York City does the same. The younger generation always seems to be worse than the last. I suggest that Miss Dunn should become more acquainted with other schools, other pupils, and become a bit more experienced in teaching before she condemns ... If all young teachers "give up" after four years, who is to supply the answer...
...never the least bit brilliant, the play is never just silly or frantic either. What is perhaps nicest about it is its prevailingly playful tone. What is weakest is its dialogue, which is too seldom really bright and too often near-neighbor to the gag. Fortunately, a number of lines that were not born witty achieve a certain wit through the adroitness of the cast. Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, and Robert Preston as the tycoon, lend a certain airy charm, provide a certain steady carbonation...
...best features of Interlingua according to Gode, is its simplicity to incorporate essential improvements in form through the "organic developments of usage." This bit of lgic, however, is also questionable. The International Society of Hematology recently published as announcement of a conference in Interlingua. Included in the social plans was a clambake; in Interlingua, this turned out to be a "picnic a bivalvos." Quite possibly, as Whatmough has suggested, the only real improvement of Interlingua over other universal languages is that you can learn it any morning before breakfast if you know Latin
Advocate readers will be pleased to find that, at least as far as the prose goes, the November issue is a bit above average. If none of the stories has a consummate finish, all of them have some very interesting facets. The most intriguing piece is a fragment from a novel by Peter Heliczer, the story of a young man with a slightly pedantic turn. Heliczer's use of lower case letters in the e e cummings fashion seems at first merely designed to prove that the author is "modern," and that there is something strange about his story...
...narrator's thoughts--he, in short, becomes rather gooey. One cannot criticize Pope for not conforming in an age of understatement, but it seems that his story might have been more effective if, especially in the first part, he had toned down his narrator's agitation just a bit...