Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing...
...enjoyment and makes money only as a sideline; if he never sold a book all year, he would keep it open. But Gordon has plenty of company when he opens up each afternoon. Students browse or simply sit down in one of his easy chairs to read. A somewhat small, pink-cheeked man with a gray line of a moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand...
...first Yale Daily News of the season arrived the other day, full of what it called "radical changes" around New Haven. We noted that used furniture entrepreneurs can no longer peddle their wares to unsuspecting freshmen. More important to growing Yalies, we read that the University is to allow them to drink all the milk they can hold. And then, we were surprised to learn that Yale has decided to make public the approximate number of students who will register this fall, as compared with the number who really did so last year...
...completely amazed." White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, "to read in the Chronicle . . . one of the most scurrilous pieces of gossip that I have ever seen printed. I am sure I do not have to tell you that this is completely false and was either maliciously invented or deliberately planted. Officially and personally, I want to protest the terrible injustice done to both the President and the Vice President...
...drilled in their ABCs and one-two-threes, scored far better on the state elementary exams than Superintendent Montanari's Freinetized pupils. This June Montanari vengefully flunked half of the conventtrained girls. The trick fooled no one. Parents suddenly realized that Montanari was not teaching their children to read, write or add. Said the wife of one leading party member: "After two years my daughter Paola could not count up to ten. When I asked her, she just gave me a pained look...