Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of Romance literature has always been scaled off from the non-specialist, more by its nature than the design of the department's officials. It is a study that demands ability to read French (or Italian or Spanish) in order to get the full benefit from French (or Italian or Spanish) writers. Courses given in English translations would attract large audiences, but many instructors in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures feel strongly that such courses would lose much of the value of literature studies. Moliere in English is still a quasi-Moliere, even in a good translation...
...many of Jordan's tutees have been gazing at the warning on the ceiling of the Blockhouse wrestling room ("If you can read this, you're loafing") this week as the Crimson made final preparations for the Bulldogs...
...apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
...other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart; that the great Yeats himself (an admirer of Zane Grey) was prepared to acclaim O'Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats had barely looked into Dostoevsky. Appalled...
...lines useful in later life is a welcome change from the "What I Did This Summer" themes of English a. But this brings up problems which are going to have to be licked to make the program work out. The GE announcement implies that the course papers will be read for writing skill as well as context, and that the student who fails to meet basis standards will be required to take the corrective course: an eminently constructive approach and well in line with the whole idea of the program. It entails, however, the ability of the man reading...