Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month. Student Barbara Jean Herin, 16, came home with The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, asked her mother to read aloud as she ironed. For Mrs. Herin, a devout Baptist, it was an unsettling experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden Nash: "Don't bother your head about sins of commission/ because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else/ you wouldn't be committing them." Barbara Jean's parents pored through the book, found at least 30 objectional poems. Most shocking were three by Walt Whitman (/ Sing...
...early days, Christmas, St. Valentine's Day and birthdays were the major occasions for greeting cards. Hall pushed the idea of cards for every sentiment, every event, now does 50% of his annual business outside of the big holidays. He went after such writers as Ogden Nash and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, brought in such artists as Saul Steinberg, Grandma Moses, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, sponsored touring Hallmark art exhibits across the U.S. He was told time and again that Sir Winston Churchill would never agree to have his paintings on greeting cards. Churchill was delighted, and Hallmark sold...
...Richard Nash, a major Broadway playwright, has fashioned an excellent screenplay, remarkably faithful to DuBose Heyward's libretto. And Oliver Smith has captured the flavor of Catfish Row in an authentic-looking, yet properly stylized set. The color, the lighting, Irene Sharaff's costumes--all beautiful. Andre Previn (winner of last year's Academy Award for his work on Gigi) did the arrangements, which bring a new fullness to the Gershwin score. They are lush in the best Hollywood tradition, but never maudlin...
Among Faculty members who have attended the dinners are Dean Bundy and Professors John M. Bullitt, Charles R. Cherington, I. Bernard Cohen, Raphael Demos, Oscar Handlin, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Harry T. Levin, Henry A. Murray, Leonard K. Nash, David Riesman, and Samuel A. Stouffer...
Noting that the section system was originally designed to provide intimate discussion under stimulating leadership--(also the goal of Monro's seminars), Nash said that sections are "not as brilliant a success as they were." Although he sympathized with Monro in theory, he explained that the graduate students who lead sections "may be the great minds of tomorrow, but not of today...