Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After many a swan song, Manhattan's venerable old Murray Hill Hotel, a seedy symbol of the Mauve Decade, finally closed its doors. J. P. Morgan Sr. used to sip coffee in the Murray Hill's lobby; Mark Twain often used its decorous billiard room. Now its eight stories of brownstone will be torn down. In its place (on Park Avenue a block south of Grand Central) will go a 30-story office building...
...They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay of class consciousness. (General Mark Clark commented that the beautiful sorceress in the picture had something of the haunting elusiveness of the still unsigned Austrian peace treaty...
...markets were black markets. The picture of brave prosperity was false, and its bright colors hid festering dirt and dangerous tensions. Inflation went unchecked. Unemployment was,nearing the two-and-a-half-million mark. In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza was on his way to the Foreign Office when a crowd surrounded his car and mauled him. Cried Sforza: "I know you want bread! I work 16 hours a day so you'll get it." The bitter reply: "You work-but we can't." The Government, a paralytic coalition of Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists, was bogged...
...three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" moved well past the half-way mark with its two meetings yesterday, as the morning's trio of speeches brought up specific problems in music and led to a brisk discussion session in the afternoon...
Like all section courses, English A stands or falls on the instructor. The format has not changed in decades. Attached to the twice-weekly section meetings is reading, often interesting in itself, but determined more by the predilection of the section man than by a logical scheme. Marking, also, is highly individualistic. The tendency is not to mark papers too high, but to undervalue them. If the instructor is really able, the most useful part of English A lies in the conferences, devoted to individual problems, which again depends with the instructor...