Word: marner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
...waste of time for most high-school students to read Il Penseroso, Ivanhoe, Silas Marner and other compulsory classics. It would be enough for many to secure "sufficient competence in reading to comprehend newspapers and magazines reasonably well." Only a gifted few can achieve any real understanding of algebra or geometry. It should, therefore, be a matter of choice whether a student takes algebra, literature, Latin, foreign languages...
...Instead of beginning with Silas Marner and going on to Shakespeare, a modern high-school English course is likely to start with a study of magazines, then proceed to "units of study" on the U.S. language (what it is, how it changes). Its textbooks include fewer long classics, more anthologies...