Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole, the faculty scored about B-plus. The average grade was 3.1 (out of a possible 4.0). Only five professors had flubbed badly (with 2.5 or below), while 43 got a rousing 3.6 or more from their students. At the end of the year, the teachers will be allowed to see their report cards. Some will be pleased ("This is the only class I really hate to cut"). Others will be embarrassed ("I have come to dread going to his class...
...week's end city educational authorities, with a defiant glint in the eye, dared Goldstein to do his worst. Said Dr. Paul A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of schools: "I see he's going to pick our books for us! He is not ... We're just going to continue in our regular, slow, somewhat dumb schoolteacher fashion to do the best we can for the children...
...week's end, a jampacked studio audience (some had written in last summer for the free but hard-to-get tickets) and several million listeners and televiewers heard the first two acts of Aida living as it has seldom lived before. For his 82nd birthday, the great conductor had given the world's music lovers a present: the kind of exact and exacting, passionate performance that is in his power to give, dedicated with love and devotion...
...graduated from Brooklyn's James Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely business...
Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...