Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacLeish, has had a varied career as a poet, journalist, and government official. He was Librarian of Congress before the war, and served during the war in the Office of War Information...
...explaining career opportunities in the Foreign Service, I presented a number of considerations which interested students should weight pro and con in deciding whether they are fitted for, and would enjoy, a life in the Foreign Service. They must consider whether by native intelligence, intellectual equipment, character, and personality qualifications they stand a good chance in the keenly competitive, nation-wide examinations... They should not entertain fanciful illusions about a life generally characterized by gaiety, excitement, and intrigue. These elements may develop in the life of a Foreign Service officer, but they are only occasional highlights in a career...
Thus did the red-headed Miss Cord, a native of Cambridge, finally find her way to the hearts of the Plympton Street scribes, whose home she has passed "ever since I learned to walk." The tall statuesque entertainer chatted gaily about her career as a singer and burlesque artiste--"stripping is more fun"--and pointed out to her interested auditors her favorite item of clothing a necklace given her by an Australian Army officer, "one thing that I keep on all the time...
Towards the end of his Freshman year, each undergraduate arms himself with a copy of the course catalogue and, with aid of an adviser, plane the remainder of his college career. Before him lies a vast range of 400 courses and thirty-one distinct fields of concentration. Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base...
...oldies--classical "standards," if you wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...