Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of those heterogeneous spectacles known as "the Whitney Annual" exhibition, Feininger would be represented by one of a small minority of delighting, consoling canvases. There would be present, inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most...
Both Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania offer study of the American short story. An institution founded so late that it has no roots whatever in American literary history, such as the University of California, can offer three times the number of courses that Harvard does. Stanford's American literary catalogue reads this way: three survey courses--beginning to 1850, 1850 to 1900, 1900 to present; Hawthorne and Melville; Emerson and Thoreau; Narrative Prose; Chief American Poets; Rise of Realism in American Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction...
Honors candidates seeking course reduction in order to pursue independent studies now need only the approval of the department concerned, the Administrative Board, and the Registrar's office. The new plan will speed the granting of applications by reducing the number of authorities processing them...
...many of them had never even been on a farm, let alone sown anything but wild oats. The first months were a long nightmare; a wheat crop failed because of a poor choice of seed. Some settlers had to stay in tents during the long dark winter. Slowly, their number dwindled (537 left in the first four years) leaving the strong and the dogged, who bought up the abandoned land. Gradually the birthrate climbed, the bulldozers and the plows and the buildings moved into the wilderness...
...designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date her instructor after hours in nightclubs. "Naturally," said Murray, "we refused permission...