Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the point of view of the Committee, we are tightening requirements. It is true that the essay for candidates who have to drop out of honors their senior year is no longer required; but this applies to very few people. The rather perfunctory Bible-and-Shakespeare group discussions will no longer be required; but the standard exacted in other group discussions and oral examinations will be raised. The honors thesis will, in general, be limited to 10,000 words, as in many other departments. But this is hardly an "easing" of the requirement. It is simply that greater emphasis...
...Railroader McGinnis, it was only the beginning of another bad week. While waiting for an overdue train to Manhattan, a group of Madison Avenue admen invented an essay contest on how New Haven commuters feel about the railroad. Prizes would be awarded to the Connecticut commuters who provide the best endings to such sentences as "When I arrived in my office a few minutes before lunch, my boss . . ." or "We're thinking of moving back to Long Island because . . ." First prize: $50. Consolation prize: a share of New Haven stock...
Died. Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber, 89, mother of The New Yorker Humorist James Thurber and subject of his essay Lavender with a Difference: "Lavender and old lace ... are not for Mary Thurber. It would be hard for me to say what it is ... She never wears black . . . 'Black is for old ladies,' she told me . . . not long ago"; in Columbus, Ohio...
...dictionaries and encyclopedias by the hundreds of thousands. Enough people were worried by Why Johnny Can't Read to boost it way up on the bestseller lists; not enough were interested in challenging reading to do as much for Walter Lippmann's The Public Philosophy, a disputatious essay on the need of natural law at democracy's base...
...Steel Hour had a lighter and happier essay on the same theme of a family consuming its own, with a TV adaptation of the London and Broadway hit Edward, My Son. Britain's Robert Morley was superb as the oleaginous trickster who believes that nothing is too good for his son-or for himself, either-and is ready to burn down a building or buy up a school to prove...