Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speeches should be six minutes long and on a topic of contemporary interest or the scholarly interest of the candidates. Several candidates from each division will be selected for an oral tryout on April 25, in Sanders Theater...
Structural and dramatic skill alone have never made a successful epic, however. Effectiveness of expression is probably the most important single criterion. The written word has in this respect always been at a disadvantage when compared with the oral epic. Writers, unlike bards, can test neither the effectiveness of their subject matter nor its mode of expression, for they lack the opportunity to repeat, modify, and retest their work...
Unglamorous Slogan. Quick-minded rather than reflective, Kubitschek seldom does any off-the-job reading heavier than historical novels. On the job, he prefers oral briefings to written reports. His favorite sedentary diversion is poker; a bold, unfathomable bluffer, he usually wins. He has no hobbies, no interest in sports. "When I was young, I was too poor," he explains. "Later I was too busy...
...Oral Roberts (TIME, July 11) is somebody. He regularly conducts faith-healing meetings over 300 radio and 115 TV stations, and draws crowds wherever he pitches his revival tent. Since Australia usually welcomes visiting U.S. performers with open arms, his campaign down under should have gone well. But even before he landed in Sydney, a group of Australian preachers denounced him as a "fraud and impostor...
...minor final correction of fact? The group oral examination on an ancient or modern historian in the Junior year still remains. It is simply the literary text, examined in the Sophomore year, that has been modified, at least for the time being. Here the text will be a work not only of high literary merit but also of genuine importance in intellectual, cultural or political history. This is a part of our immediate hope of bringing history back a little more into History and Literature. W.J. Bate, Chairman Committee on Degrees in History and Literature