Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sombre note was introduced with the playing of a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading a number of his poems about death, Seamus O'Neill, an Irish poet, read three of his poems that had been translated from the Gaelic, noting, "it puzzles me that people who have no knowledge of Irish history are still interested in it." Mr. Chaney then called the Fugitive movement "the greatest philosophical meetings" of his life...
...publishers and a number of critics have made much of the novel's "economy" of presentation. It is a strange economy, an economy which reduces the 18 years of squalor to a few paragraphs, and yet sends its protagonist back to the squalor as a pawn of Guerard's "reality." It is an economy which, when employed, too often fails to satisfy the curiosity; and which, in its lapses, overelaborates the same sort of sex affair people have confessed to in railroad club cars for a quarter-century...
...their gloom, the conference members reported some progress. Teachers who aim first at providing conversational ability, with reading, writing and grammar added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many...
...concerned from using their brains and consciences. So far as the law can act, however, Mark de Wolfe Howe, Harvard law professor (and a nondenominational Protestant) has some significant suggestions. He seems far less worried by the religious partisans than by the Jacobins. He notes that there are a number of possible "aids to religion which do not appreciably affect the religious or other constitutional rights of individuals." Under the First Amendment, he feels, even such aids should not be offered by the Federal Government. But he thinks that state governments, similarly limited by past court interpretations of the 14th...
...member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made a claim...