Word: oral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafin has taken up many of the Howland report recommendations in the last year. He has encouraged job advancement through a new open competitive process involving a written and oral test. One sergeant has already been promoted and Chafin intends to fill that vacancy this November. In addition, he has sent officers and supervisors to training schools in the metropolitan area for instruction in fingerprinting, criminal investigation, supervisory skills and arson--a move he claims has helped to increase the officer's sense of job security. The union now regrets its push for promotions since sergeants and lieutenants are salaried...
...Oral and Early Literature...
...Oral literature throve in Ancient Greece and, less celbratedly among the ancient Celts and Mesopotamians, and even among some modern-day Yugoslavs. Harvard's lecture halls, with their crowds of literate students, would not seem fertile territory for this genre...
...wife, the late novelist Jane Bowles, presided over a lively colony of literary émigrés and pilgrims. Bowles translated Sartre and founded Antaeus, a superb quarterly; his publications include novels (The Sheltering Sky. Let It Come Down), collections of poetry and short stories, travel essays, oral histories translated from the North African Moghrebi dialect and an autobiography. His work has been highly esteemed by other writers, including a few (Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal) with no love for each other. Yet Bowles remains less familiar to general readers than dozens of his inferiors...
...Oral literature throve in Ancient Greece and, less celbratedly among the ancient Celts and Mesopotamians, and even among some modern-day Yugoslavs. Harvard's lecture halls, with their crowds of literate students, would not seem fertile territory for this genre...