Word: highschool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Henry: "Highschool education in America is required to handle throngs of pupils for no other reason than to keep them from roaming the streets. . . . The atmosphere is tentative, hurried, crowded and decidedly anti-intellectual...
...issue of TIME under National Affairs you referred to the New Republic magazine as the pinko New Republic. That seems to come under the heading of smart remarks, the kind that causes teachers to send highschool freshmen to the principal's office...
...cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss...
...Harris is the one who does the most brooding and the heaviest word-slinging about what he writes. Last week Cleveland heard the first complete performance of his Folk-Song Symphony for orchestra and chorus, which he wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed and broadcast at an Eastman festival in Rochester last spring. Cleveland got first crack at the whole work...
...Last week the sophisticated began calling him El Buchudo, he of the double chin. Pudgy though he is, Avila Camacho keeps himself in good condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony...