Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, Kirk replied that Egypt has had its own Ministry of Education since 1923 and could have produced such an increase long ago. In a dictatorship, he added, "literacy" can mean the "ability to read that stuff that falls into the hands of the people. The Devil, as we know, can quote Scripture for his purpose...
...that not only could Johnny not read, but he grew up to be an adapter for the Globe Book...
...around $4,500), which spurred Floyd to write a "music drama" out of Emily Brontë's "eminently operatic" novel, came from Director John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera, a year-old enterprise that runs an open-air theater in the "cultural capital of the Southwest." Floyd read the novel four times and came to a highly debatable conclusion: "I realized it's very badly written; I could use almost no Brontë dialogue. There's no immediacy to it; I had to do a creative job." The job, libretto then music took him twelve months...
Leading the Blind. Witnesses told the committee of cases throughout the U.S., mostly involving the old, the infirm, the widowed, or those who had simply reached the end of the line. Another soft touch is the blind: they cannot read the contracts. Said Donald McClure, California's assistant real-estate commissioner: "This is one of the most vicious rackets we've ever had to deal with...
While assuring everyone that he is "nothing like as erudite as my hero," he admits: "I find it increasingly hard to distinguish myself from him these days." Like the detective, Rab Raphael-now the British Treasury's chief press officer-is musically literate; he may read through the scores of Beethoven's Rasaumowsky quartets while traveling or sing a Schubert sonata in the bathtub. Says he: "I always sing the left-hand part of a piano piece or the cello part in a quintet. You can hear the whole thing that...