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Kitredge wrote more than 150 books and articles, running the gamut from Arm Pitting among the Greeks to Witchcraft in old and New England, from a school edition of Cicero's orations to An Advanced English Grammar, from studies of Middle English balladry to his famous notes on Shakespeare...
...runs 110 pages--a gamut of essays, poems, short stories, reviews, and even a play. The editors launch the issue with a benign note to the effect that they intend to publish writers more interested in art than market...
...dance exercises every night at 11. At 16 she relaxed, did not start her day's work until 5:45 a.m., nowadays still begins at the same hour. A fanatic of the dance, Shanta Rao insists that a dancer should be able to run through the whole gamut of emotions with the wordless movements of her body. "If I say 'I love you,' I should be able to show it in different ways if you are a girl or a god. If I am evil, I want you to feel like killing me." But when asked...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...
...increasing costs the only problem facing administrators. To acquire an education in today's fast-paced world requires too much time. Students coming from secondary schools face a long gamut of college, military service, and graduate school. Often they are twenty-five or twenty-six before they finish their education...