Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taylor characterized the change as more of a "horse trade" than a major policy change. Last year the juniors read Thucydides, while under the new plan the sophomores will read him. Juniors will read some major work in their field of specialization...
Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
These statements, which contain the essential message of the film, have poetic light and spiritual resonance, but they read better than they sound from the screen. Despite intelligent acting by Actor Howard, skillful touches from Director Huston and some awesome landscapes with elephants, this huge (2 hrs. 11 mins.) movie finally seems no more than a literary notion that has apparently suffered, along with CinemaScope and DeLuxe color, a severe attack of elephantiasis...
...special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published in the U.S.) Those who treasure the art of fiction above entertainment will read An End and a Beginning with the respect and attention given to a somber passage of music...
...haired, chlorinated "mermaids" of Moors Hall wave our "coveted Radcliffe Swim Marathon crown" in protest against the article which appeared in Thursday morning's CRIMSON. The morning after our jubilant swimmers brought the news of our victory, we read...