Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher genuinely loves poetry but cannot communicate his love to others. "I am inclined to believe that this is the worst of the lot. He loves poetry-obviously-yet all he can do is to make it sound ridiculous. 'Listen to this, boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made...
...Chippie Hill is one of the primitives of jazz, and her performance is an earthy blending of sex and syncopation (it would take an undauntable jazzophile to tell where one began and the other ended). There isn't much Chippie won't sing or say to keep the show boiling-but she won't sing a hymn in a nightclub. "Now that's wrong. You can't play with God in a nightclub; if you do He'll put an affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work...
...short, for all his ability, for all his success, Jake Kramer is a "tennis bum"-as most amateur stars have been for the past 20 years. He isn't losing any sleep over it. "Everybody knows that a good amateur tennis player in America can make a living going around the country playing tournaments," he says, "and if he does, he's called a tennis bum." A tennis pro makes more money, and makes it openly. But the amateur camouflage is a necessary preliminary: it establishes the cashable reputation...
...said that the Yard dormitories were packed to the limit and that if adding an extra man to a room becomes necessary, it will have to be done in the Houses where the situation isn't quite so tight...
...school teaches the usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...