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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
Kanin's heroine makes rapid strides toward a whisking acquaintance with basic politics and basic poise. From first-act faux pas (greeting a dowager: "wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
...debacle in 1932: "It is always a mistake to assume that either of the two American parties is dead, however divided and crushed it may seem to be. Herbert Croly (founder of the New Republic) used to say that the two parties were virtually indestructible because they were low-grade organisms, which had neither a brain nor a heart that could be stopped, and so you could cut them in half and the two halves would wiggle on and somehow grow together again...
...vast and varied resources of New York City. New Haven is a poor town for entertainment, night life being limited to beer drinking at Mory's for members and at the Old Heidelberg for non-members, chow at George and Harry's, and indoor athletics at the Hotel Grade. On weekday nights the students must content themselves with a movie, an occasional play, or a racy meeting of the Political Union...
...same studies. It was easy for the board to hit on a half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay-type exam entirely (except in English composition...