Word: menu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students...
...dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty by accident, that is not so bad, but it is unpardonable to see the day's menu on the lapel of one's suit. By carefully avoiding dirt we not only save cleaning fluid, but the suit will last longer...
...Morning Menu. Gone from Page One of the morning edition, which competes with Bertie McCormick's Tribune (circ. 955,000), was the banner-and-big-pictures treatment of the standard tabloid. In its place, readers got smaller cuts and news stories. The new Sun-times team gave most of the Page One play to national and international news instead of local stories...
...Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...
...Princeton, Howard Johnson's is serving in an unfamiliar Gothic environment without its orange roof, and with only six of its 28 flavors. There is no choice for Princetonians between a "Hot Roast Vermont Turkey Sandwich" and "Delicious Fried Clams." Instead of a waitress beaming down with a menu, a fellow student loads the table with platters of institutionalized cooking...