Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newton is master of a conversational mode of address that would have delighted his learned and loquacious hero, Dr. Samuel Johnson. His discourse upon the typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that "we get lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...
...That I should have suffered a far greater handicap in life than I have in the way of expression of thought, clarity of statement, had I not studied the classic languages. I realize that nobody is now paying any attention to them and that a man may be a Master of Arts with a mere smattering of Latin and no Greek whatever, but I am not convinced that the loss of these two languages is contributing to accurate English...
This is to be done by teaching students to assemble and consider relevant facts and to apply general principles derived from the study and discussion of numerous examples taken from actual practice in this business and in related businesses. By this method it is hoped that students will master the general principles and will learn to apply them to specific problems...