Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticism of Anne Lindbergh's poetry. In The Unicorn, as in all her other books, she sees and thinks and feels with monotonous regularity. She may be a splendid person, but she's a lousy poet. Critic Ciardi is so right, and I'm glad he had the courage to speak...
They Can Fix. Brown's budding scientists have proved themselves useful in less exalted ways. Once when some of the school's electric clocks broke down, the local repairman turned down Brown's call for help. "We'd be glad to come out.'' he explained. "But those kids out there can fix them." The students now maintain all the school's equipment, have in stalled an intercom system and a special burglar alarm in the boys' washroom to keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than...
...recent proposal made at the annual Cedar Hill Conference to provide a Student Union for Radcliffe meets with our highest approval. In a world that often appears to us full of self-concern, we are glad to see an act of almost pure altruism...
Barbadians are sorry, but Sparrow's glad...
...Petersburg, Fla. Hill at his chestnut-stuffed best: "Indiana! How often in this holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast to come . . . Unbearable suspense . . . the glad trooping to the dining room to wait until grandma in black silk and white lace is seated on her throne at the foot of the table...