Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway writes of Gertrude Stein: "It's a damned shame ... all that talent gone to malice and self-praise . . . she never could write dialogue. . . . She learned how to do it from my stuff. . . ."
The editor knows her business girls better than they know themselves. By bombarding them with questionnaires, she has learned that they earn an average of $170 a month, that 71% of them chew gum, only 37% smoke 63% are single and 95% think (wishfully or otherwise) that it is not...
All next day, Jake sat around watching the other kids playing (one of them was Schroeder). He did not know that he was watching the fledgling chicks of California's high-pressure tennis incubator. They had beautiful strokes, and Jake asked someone how a kid learned to play tennis...
Edith Halpert shies at selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they...
At Shawnee, the courses included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a...