Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the team will miss the services of Ralph Perry, senior John Read could fill in the gap, as the rugged five-mile course is made for him. Either Dyke Benjamin or Bill Thompson will be the seventh starter for the varsity...
...incompetence." Labeling Stace's Metaphysics "a metaphysical mambo," Halton later charged the professor with "poisoning the minds of students with incompetence for 38 years." He contended that Stace had made 22 errors of fact in his treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas, which, he said, implied that Stace had not read the Summa Theologica...
...case, WTTW is giving scores of men and women, including 52 who are handicapped, their only chance to go to college. Among the handicapped: a totally paralyzed 22-year-old who must depend on a rocking bed to breathe; a deaf girl who finds that she can easily read her professors' lips on TV; a blind woman of 55 who tape-records each lecture, plays it back to herself until she has mastered it. Says she: "I don't care if I flunk. These courses are giving me something I was starved for-intellectual intercourse. I have contact...
...Angels. Wadsworth imbued the Guardian with his own puckishness, his donnish verbosity, his love for the elegant phrase. The paper often exasperates other newsmen with its quill-pen essayist's approach to the day's hard news, is designed for those who lounge as they read. It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven. Snorted Winston Churchill in 1950: "What a remarkable position of superiority...
...walk and talk with great men was as much an everyday thing to Lamb as rubbing shoulders with the demons of insanity. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written "what he calls a vision, Kubla Khan," it was to Lamb that he read this great poem aloud-"so enchantingly that it brings heaven into my parlor while he sings or says it." William Hazlitt, angriest of English essayists ("He avows that not only does he not pity sick people, but he hates them"), was another devoted friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak...