Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gravel bar. He made good money-more than $100 a week. He got himself elected business agent of Laundry Driver's Local 566, made speeches in Seattle's down-at-the-heels labor temple at every opportunity. He took extension courses in economics, law, business administration, and English...
Shakespeare: Hamlet (spoken excerpts by Sir Laurence Olivier, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conducting; Victor, 6 sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
...Administrative Committee for the Julia Henry Fund announced Saturday that grants of $2400 are available for five American students to study in English universities. The fund, which also sends English students to Harvard and Yale, provides fellowships to both men and women...
Professor Howard Mumford Jones attacked the over-sentimentality present in the teaching of college literature in a welcoming address to over 250 New England college professors of English at the annual meeting of the College English Association in Sever Hall, Saturday...
...local group is the idea of Michael Linenthal '37, a Cantabrigian, and Gerald Savory, an English-born Playwright-actor. The two men met in 1947 when Mr. Linenthal's Woodstock Summer Theater was presenting Mr. Savory's play, "George and Margaret." Deciding that this was going to be one civic organization run on a real business-like basis, they innaugurated last year a series of gala cocktail parties where they managed to peddle $40,000 worth of shares to some 3,000 interested citizens. ANTA did its bit by sending celebrities up from New York to brighten the dark corners...