Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raine, as she points out in the introduction to her Collected Poems, has tossed overboard "love poems of a personal nature" as well as "poems descriptive of events in place and time . . . that seem now as dead as any other journalism." And she believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there...
Awards of honors would be made by each department on the basis of the thirty-three formal half-courses completed (thirteen in the freshman year, including General Education Ahf; eight in the sophomore and junior year, four in the fall term of the senior year); the average of grades on the thirty-five thousand words devoted to his field and the ten thousand to distribution; and his showing on the general examination...
Awards of honors would be made by each department on the basis of the thirty-three formal half-courses completed (thirteen in the freshman year, including General Education Ahf; eight in the sophomore and junior years, four in the fall term of the senior year); the average of grades on the thirty-five thousand words devoted to his field and the ten thousand to distribution; and his showing on the general examination...
...Suez adventure marked a turning point. There were already signs that Saud had become wary of Nasser. Last spring there were reports of a brief mutiny in the Saudi army instigated by Egyptian-trained officers. Last June 4,000 workers struck at Aramco just before Saud paid a formal visit, greeted him shouting of "oppression" by foreign imperialists. Saud's police beat several demonstrators to death with palm stems. Then, when Nasser flew to Dhahran for a conference, Saud was annoyed to find that the cheers for Nasser were far louder than for himself...
...genius was plain in childhood. He never wanted to be anything but a musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest...