Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal government is giving plenty of aid to education as it is--most of it by direct subsidy through the GI Bill--and it has given plenty in the past, beginning with land grants for colleges in the last century, and school-house building programs in the Depression. What the various pressure groups desire is that the money forthcoming from the Eighty-First Congress will be unconditional--no strings attached. What they desire more fervently, of course, is the money itself...
...Barry, the translator, has chosen to retain certain odd twists in the dialogue which tend to make the audience conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left...
...same time, the Graduate School of Education announced the appointment of Dr. Robert R. Sears of the University of Iowa as professor of Education and Child Psychology. He will direct a research project in motivation and learning theory...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, director of the University band and Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, will conduct the orchestra. Thomas Phillips of the Longy School of Music has been named director, while Richard F. French '37, assistant professor of Music, will direct the chorus...
...only one of its kind in the country; a similar unit in Central Square closed down last year. Outside of its traffic control duties, the booth attracts a clamoring stream of information seekers. Burke is constantly assailed by people requiring guidance of all kinds. He is now able to direct traffic by instinct as he answers these questions; "but it was hard as hell at first," he concedes...