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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vagabond Liver. On the auld sod of Dublin, Behan makes even less attempt at apology. "I'm addicted to drink," he announces calmly. "In the part of Dublin I come from it's no disgrace to get drunk. It's an achievement." Followed by a horde of slum urchins begging sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders...
...name is Brendan Behan, I'm...
This, a major academic problem, affects Harvard crucially, for this university has gained the reputation of sustained leadership in almost all fields of college study. But, in the words of Professor Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the Romance Languages department, "In advances and in the teaching of elementary languages, Harvard is following and not leading." A recent survey by the Chicago Tribune would seem to back Frohock's statement. Whereas Harvard was chosen as the top college in the country, seven out of its 28 major fields were labelled as "undistinguished." French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics were five...
There is then the question of who is to teach these courses. The majority of the faculty teaching elementary courses are graduate students working for their Ph.D. (often in some totally unrelated course to the language they are teaching). As Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, points out, "Everytime we find a particularly good elementary teacher, he just gets picked off to be a section man in French 20 or some other upper-level course. The result is that the elementary teaching never gets above a certain level...
...into what artistic "school" does his own work fall? "I'm still searching," he answers...