Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students. The Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele. But since many of them read more as though they were written by L'il Abner, the Committee should be getting a much larger clientele...
...neither read nor seen "Richard III" prior to Monday night and consequently my approach to this interpretation may have benefited from lack of prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses of Lancaster and York, along with a short history of England in Richard's time, but I found the play still hopelessly confusing to follow. This would be of no importance if the play contained enough compensating poetry, but it is a procession of blood and rhetoric, both a little too thick...
...years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading, scarcely moments enough to read his priestly office...
...last 30 years his recreations had included such items as flame dives from the high board. He was also an actor (Good News), a record-making ukulele player, author of Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit and Providence) before going to Washington University...
...along by just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that." Mrs. Blume used to read novels aloud to him while he painted, but lately they have given it up. ("I've been less placid in the last few years...