Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic reprisals such as loss of jobs, promotions, trouble with city licenses, city contracts, harassment on petty auto mobile offenses, tightening up on loans, etc. Mayor James Morgan, popular with businessmen, in office since 1937, is privately telling friends that he intends to resign next year - "I used to enjoy going to the City Hall. I don't any more." Housewives who profess moderation run the risk of social ostracism. White ministers, asked to help improve communications between the races, reply only with general ities. Says one moderate: "It isn't enough that you are in favor...
...play that is more than faintly autobiographical. If you find Noel Coward innocent of the charges for which he was buried i.e., that he was preoccupied with uninteresting and even obnoxious people, and that today he seems as remote from us as, say, General Eisen-hower, you will enjoy the play. Certainly much of last night's audience...
...Reading is the only thing I really enjoy. I have read constantly since I was twelve. I read about four or five books a week, and I have finished over 200 books in the last five months alone." Capote is particularly disposed to Proust, Flaubert, Jane Austen, Turgenev, and, among living writers, E. M. Forster. He has a voluminous Proust collection, including a number of obscure biographies...
...enjoy helping college students, explained Leighton, who has been with the University for more than 20 years. "You shouldn't work here if you don't." Cooperation with the Superintendent's Department has increased since he first came, and more help is given to get the job done, Leighton claimed. The efficiency of the caretaking department "has improved 100 per cent" during the last 20 years, he asserted...
...next problem that confronts the Harvard elementary language teacher is the question of time: "This Monday-Wednesday-Friday strait jacket," one instructor feels, "is particularly injurious to the study of an elementary language. We need continuity in our teaching process, and somewhat the same setup as the scientific courses enjoy would be a good answer." Last year, for the first time, an elementary language course was allowed four hours a week--German A. This new course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that...