Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book primarily in political terms would be making a major error about Doctor Zhivago and about Boris Pasternak. The bitter criticism of Marxism cannot be missed, and Pasternak obviously wrote exactly what he wanted to write. But he also says: "My novel was not intended to be a political pamphlet. I wanted to show life as it is, in all its wealth and intensity. In the West they always quote the same two or three pages of my work. Have they read the rest? I am not a propagandist. This is not the meaning of my novel...
Capote particularly delights in the Harvard professor who wrote a critical article on one of his early books, entitled Truman Capote and the Search for the Holy Grail. The article was later published in pamphlet form. "He said that I had steeped myself in the Arthurian legends, that my book was really a subtle, symbolic retelling of the old myths. It was insanity! I never read the Arthurian legends, even as a child. And even today I'm still not sure what the holy grail...
Higher pay is one way to get more teachers. Another: spreading the truth that a teacher's bread is not dough alone. Last week the American Council on Education issued a warm little pamphlet (College Teaching As a Career) that allows three noted U.S. teachers to recruit in their own way-by describing the rich satisfactions they find in their work. Teaching rewards...
...skeptics among the 175,000 U.S. undergraduates to whom the pamphlet is being distributed, the council notes such material teaching pleasures as a nine-month schedule, the sabbatical year. Other advantages now prevalent (at little or no cost): housing, medical and life insurance, pensions, mutual-fund stocks, education for faculty children. Average starting pay is still small (about $5,500 last year), but, since 1954, faculty salaries have risen about 7% a year...
...cover of "Around the Square," an advertising pamphlet edited by Miss Regan, contains a section of the copyrighted...