Word: ners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nancy Albaugh, an Ohio girl who customarily works in the U.S. Air Force dependents' school in Wiesbaden, is getting 25 enthusiastic German children to tell about the days of the week in English. Later, the classes mix, sing alternate stanzas of Go Down Moses and Nach grüner Farb, mein Herz verlangt. After two weeks of Americans' visiting Germans, the German children come to the American school for a fortnight, and so it goes all year...
...large majority of the students, eager to cement with the Faculty members all too frequently exhibited their existence only as a voice from the of Lowell Lecture Hall or a grade on a bluebook. Many 'Cliffies were anxious to learn for themselves whether or not Harvard's famed ner-table education" was really the myth their cynical friends from the Common claimed. Most of them found that it was, but also discovered that their favorite professor, from his den in the Widener might prove entertaining if not Undeniably, Mrs. Bunting's system added the spice of wit, of scholarship...
Last week Natalie was on "leave of absence" from her studio until she tidied up her marital and household affairs. War ner came up with a new gimmick to herald Splendor-a special one-day showing "to allow time for the film to be discussed, to be highly praised or hotly attacked" four weeks in advance of its regular release...
...hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
...gave out territorially, Americans greedily tried for a share of the overseas market. Even poor old Walt Whitman has to share the blame, because he applauded "personal regeneration." When confronted by a problem, Whitman walked away, as many of his heirs from Mark Twain to William Faulk ner were to do, and became "a wayfarer down the open road...