Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visiting Englishman. International peace, based on Anglo-American cooperation, was a favorite Noyes theme even before World War I. In 1911 he went to the U.S. on his first lecture tour, and in 1914 became Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton. Some of Noyes's best anecdotes belong to his periods...
...Student Council filed a report citing a lack of understanding between undergraduates and student waiters. It suggested that if upperclassmen instead of freshmen took the jobs it might remove friction as well as make the jobs more popular. Bliss Perry replaced J. Tucker Murray in English A. Murray had brought lectures to the course, while students in the know predicted that Perry would place far greater emphasis on literature...
...CRIMSON attempted to build up English-style debating as a counter-attraction to football, though it continued to run news of practices in the lead column each day. Indeed, the English influence was heavy on the College all year: Gilbert Murray was giving the Norton lectures, the Cambridge debaters created a sensation with their winning arguments for government regulation (F. W. Lorentzen was one-third of the Harvard team), the tutorial system was just taking hold, and reading periods patterend on Oxford's were instituted for the first time at any American university...
...perpetrators are two experienced Tin Pan Alley hands named Tony Burrello and Tom Murray who became discouraged, they say, over the poor sales of their most ambitious stuff. "We are in an era," they concluded, "where good is bad and bad is good." With that, they formed the Horrible Record Co., sat down and in cold blood wrote words and music to both songs "during the next 17 minutes...
Songwriters Burrello and Murray thought they had made a pretty effective protest record, ordered 500 copies for disk jockeys. But in two weeks the composers have received orders for more than 100,000 copies, and the demand shows no sign of falling off. Tunesmith Murray is frightened. He is afraid, he says, that the team will become known as the "Horrible Twins" and will never be able to write anything serious again. Worse than that, the U.S. public may "have a secret desire for really horrible music. It's getting into the psychiatric...