Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theater" is ideal for Hartford, where it will probably be used as a community playhouse, but Broadway will not feel its influence for many years. A few elements may cause trouble even in Hartford. For example, the revolving stage may be called upon to perform more than it is functionally able to, in the matter of scene shifts. Mr. Wright's claim that the playhouse will bring "a new life for the theater" is premature at this point...
...Andrewes concludes that "almost everyone has his own foolproof technique for preventing or curing colds, yet colds are as numerous and as troublesome as ever . . . Even the most eminent men of science almost invariably lose all sense of critical judgment where their own colds are concerned...
Virus-laden washings from the nasal secretions of cold sufferers have been dropped into the noses of hundreds of British volunteers. But even with massive doses, only 55% of the willing guinea pigs got colds...
...dubbed "eccentric" by his fellow countrymen, a Briton must be eccentric indeed-almost out of his wits, in fact. One contemporary Briton who unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...
...needed to remedy this situation is a modification of the present universal language requirement. Since it is feasible that men in certain departments like European history or science might find some use for a language, they should continue to meet at least the present minimum requirement. Perhaps there should even be a broader and more comprehensive one, including some basic knowledge of foreign culture and intellectual history. But for others, an altogether different standard should be set perhaps in some cases no standard at all, since a little language is not worth much...