Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...
...application of the newly-acquired Dylan Thomas manuscripts in Houghton Library to the published text of Sir John's Hill has been the magazine's most valuable critical contribution to date. In a short essay in the first issue, Audience editor Ralph Maud shows how the manuscripts give a new insight on Thomas' process of word choice in a few lines of the poem. His critical remarks are specifically directed and clearly stated, and the piece is of greater concrete value to Thomas scholarship than a more pretentious approach might allow...
...outings around Paris, Mathieu drives a Rolls-Royce, and according to one admirer he "is quite capable of making long trips through the most beautiful countryside without even seeing a thing." A laudatory essay in the current Art News seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives-as much to be seen as to see. To paint an abstraction of the 13th-century Battle of Bouvines (in which one of Mathieu's forebears had a part, of course) he dressed up in black silk pants and jacket, a white helmet, and greaves fastened to his shins with white...
...essay critical of present day "mass education," as substituting quantity for quality, written by a professor of English for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times, was sharply attacked by a professor of Education last night...
...present, the tests will be similar in form, although not in content, to the regular Board examinations. Experimentation with "essay and objective testing techniques, and aural techniques in modern foreign languages" will be encouraged...