Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuation of the Plan on an extra-curricular basis also has its drawbacks. It may reach only a handful of students each year. And it will inevitably face stiff competition from other activities. On the other hand here is a chance for a new technique in teaching, freed from marking, credits, and formal sanctions. The increasing participation in the Program during this year augurs well for the future...
Inferior as melodrama, Rose of Washington Square is tops as a vehicle for displaying the talents of two superlative song pluggers. Plugger Jolson, still leather-lunged at 52, blacks his face and shouts
...soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face as a hopeless, backward brat...
...wrote constantly, but except for a few poems printed in the (now defunct) Independent, a religious weekly, none of his poetry was published. He scraped a barer and barer living from his farm. But meanwhile he was writing his intensest poetry. This intensity was the natural consequence of living face to face, side by side with a living Muse...
...Frost's early poems read like invocations of a conscience which, if it left him, would leave him lost-yet whose presence made every day, however perfect, a judgment day. But even these early poems show Frost almost as willing to play hide-&-seek with judgment as to face...