Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Burlingame, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," deplored what she described as a marked tendency among modern writers to fear any kind of power-political or social-and as a result to preach a doctrine of "wilful irresponsibility" in their books. Mrs. Janeway concluded, however, that "we are on an up-curve of talent and ability...and our best writers are, perhaps more than ever, truly concerned with how people live...
...teaching fellows have been appointed to assist first year students in a kind of "orientation" program. This move is designed to "tie together courses and thus take some of the heat off the main classes," according to Professor Fuller...
...that we'll show up for the game." He continued in this merry vein to rate Cornell "among the best four or five in the country. The only thing that's holding Lefty (Lefty James, the Cornell coach) back is his schedule." Cornell, this year, does not have the kind of opposition that makes a national champion...
...English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...even better than kind of entertainment was the artistic value of Ives' songs. I have heard Burl Ives sing a great many times both on records and in night clubs. In both cases it was impossible to realize the true clarity of his voice and the mellowness of his tone. Either there was surface noise on the records, or the sound of some drunken woman cackling...