Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professorship carries a stipend of ?250 and few duties. Poet Lewis will have to deliver three lectures a year, judge one play and one essay contest. He has plenty of other work of his own to keep him busy. A prolific poet (ten volumes published), he also writes mystery thrillers ( The Beast Must Die, Minute for Murder) under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is translating the Aeneid for the BBC's Third Program, will shortly publish a long travel poem, Italian Visit...
...tears, Mother Nightingale had confided to a friend: "We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan." It was no swan, as Lytton Strachey noted in his famous biographical essay, "it was an eagle." But Strachey-could never fathom Miss Nightingale either, because he himself, a brilliant and heretical writer, put no stock in God or goodness. The best Strachey could do was to guess that Florence Nightingale was in the clutch of a demonic spirit...
Secretary Snyder had other arguments, seen through the tunnel-and they made a long essay on economics. So did the reply of the experts. But in short, the answer to Secretary Snyder is as follows...
...Essay tests given last month to two groups of "matched" students in General Education A and English A will help determine the future of the University's experimental G.E. course...
...Essay topics range from "How would you define a square knot?" to "Why do you believe 2 plus 2 equals 4?" The system of concise answers to these abstract questions eliminates the huge quantity of written work required in English...