Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college." Audiences are going to enjoy "Fair Enough," because it is fast, gay and tuneful but they are not particularly going to want to see it repeated in the future. Art for art's sake is all right, but Edward C. Lilley, the Pudding's professional producer, must learn that in college shows art can go too far for its own good...
...native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll U. S. cinema My Man Godfrey...
...keep democracy alive in the U. S., each home should be a democracy. "Our authority . . . must not be so severe that children learn to dislike all authority. . . . Our children must be allowed and encouraged to help make decisions that affect the whole family. Vacation plans, the division of household tasks, even decisions as to the way the family should spend its money are ways to develop democracy in the home...
...think you can teach anybody to write; the only possible way to learn is through experience--most young writers don't know enough about life," he said...
...this recognition is tendered on the basis of notoriety rather than ability. Since the members of the class have not had the opportunity to learn to know each other, votes are dictated by completely false and illogical standards. The athlete and the milk-drinking champion triumph over the able executive. Perhaps freshmen should be given an opportunity to recognize their fellows, but in this case a spade should be called a spade. Elections should then be for the Most Popular Boy and the Best Athlete, rather than Class President and Class Treasurer--terms which connote something entirely different...