Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, sad-eyed, dirt-dappled bums lazed in the sun that reaches their curbs and benches now that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate...
...island on the Hudson. . .), "Ain't It The Truth," and "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today." She can ride one word onto several notes as perfectly as she can move her body provocatively. Unfortunately, she has trouble weaving in and out of a Jamaica accent, often waiting to lean into Caribbean pronunciation and rhythm until just before a song begins...
...think during the course of his life. If a person is exposed to the values of conflicting cultures, he is forced to reexamine his ideas and decide either to reject, accept, or modify his previous values. If one rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values. In Fisher and DeVoto can clearly be seen a marked concern for saying something (and justifying), rather than that with...
...small size has its advantages, it presents its problems as well. Most classes have an enrollment of less than five students, and therefore the material covered can be geared to the individual preferences of each man or woman. Often teachers have no definite outline, when they begin their course. And although there is much to be said in favor of this system, there is always the danger that the work will tend to bog down in a particular area, leaving some material to be covered in a very sketchy fashion...
...everything that goes on on the stage seems just a bit old and tired. American musical comedy turned into a ritual celebration of romantic love a good many years ago, and it takes much imagination and effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as often as this one. The pattern of musical comedies is nearly always the same. After a fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After...