Word: engels
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FOUR YEARS AGO, in the 35th reunion book of the Harvard class of 1942, Monroe Engel gave the following account of himself: "I have continued to teach, write and take in various forms of nutrient." That, recounted in characteristic fashion, is indeed what he has done for most of the past quarter century. More specifically, he has taught creative writing at Harvard during those years and written creatively on his own. As a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, Engel has lived on a plot of middle ground somewhere between his two professions. He has lived near Harvard...
...live there or the students who meet there once a week to talk about creative writing. The comfortable, lived-in part is the back, where current fiction (Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino) and current periodicals (The Paris Review, the Nation) lie about and are read. This is where Monroe Engel teaches, writes and, one presumes, takes his sundry nutrients...
...taken the court injunctions banning the strike as a reason to surrender with honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest. I think he blew it." Sandi Engel, a controller at Illinois' busy Aurora center, is married to a union welder who opposes the strike. Says she: "Every morning he tells me, 'What you're doing is illegal. You're going to jail...
...early catalyst for the Christian schools movement was the Supreme Court's 1962 decision in Engel vs. Vitale, leading to a ban on prayer and, as practically interpreted in the public schools, to virtual elimination of religious discussion in schools. Another was 1954's Brown vs. The Board of Education, which inspired the establishment of a number of Southern Christian schools as "segregation academies" for white students...