Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first to print James Joyce's Work in Progress (which later became Finnegans Wake), transition was also among the first in English with the work of Franz Kafka and Andre Gide (see RELIGION). To such U.S. literary expatriates of the '205 as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William Carlos Williams-all glad to work in transition's experimental laboratory-Editor Jolas never paid more than $1 a page ("Anybody who would write and not want payment was always a better friend of transition...
...good part of the four and a half month controversy, stated, "I'm in favor of his getting elected right away--I only opposed him on small, separate issues." Sullivan, like Lynch, has supported the Manager during the whole controversy. Councillors W. Donnison Swan '17, Edward A. Crane '35, Hyman Pill and Mayor Joseph A. DiGuglielmo '29 have always opposed Atkinson...
...Laborers at a Budapest crane factory attended the factory's political school in twice their usual number, informed one another and the press that "the most beautiful experience of their lives had been their first meeting with Comrade Rakosi in the winter...
Dello Joio: Psalm of David (Crane Orchestra and Chorus of the Potsdam (N.Y.) Teachers College, Helen M. Hosmer conducting; Concert Hall Society, 2 sides LP). Talented, 39-year-old Norman Dello Joio (TIME, May 22, 1950) describes this first oratorio as "a 20th century treatment of early French and Italian music." His treatment is skillful, freshly contemporary without being harsh or clashing, altogether distinctly beautiful. Performance and recording: good...
Several professors threatened to take action against students whose examination papers contained "canned answers." Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, said in 1940 that his last English 7 exam had "wreaked havoc among crane parlor habit`uees...