Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read Editor Mortimer Smith's outcry against pre-chewed classics [July 7]. I am with him right down the line. To learn that the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities has been deleted is tragic. When reading to children I have felt it was good to go over their heads if possible. How else are they going to learn new words and tastes...
Despite Classics Crank Mortimer Smith, the adapter (or the editor) may sometimes know "how to write the book better than did the original author." I've been reading those versions of Tom Wolfe's novels by Maxwell Perkins, and they're not half bad. Of course, I've never read the originals...
...give youngsters who would be unable to read the classics in their original form a knowledge of the great works of literature in a modernized vocabulary. Confronted with large numbers of reluctant and retarded readers, our nation's schools have found Globe's publications most valuable...
...first in a series of two poetry readings was presented last night in Sanders Theatre as William Alfred and Robert Lowell read selections from their works...
Alfred, an assistant professor of English, read the prologue and first act of his unpublished verse play, Hogan's Ghost...