Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indoor season marked by record-shattering performances almost every weekend Delany has been outstanding. The thrills he has given the thousands who have had the opportunity to see him run and to the millions who have read of his exploits would alone argue strongly against any disciplinary action...
...present courses tend both to be too narrow for the general student and to include discouraging language prerequisities. While translations always fall short of readings in the original language, there is little nonpoetic literature that cannot be studied with profit in English. The fact that only one language is required where works in both, say, French and German are read, is tacit admission that neither is really necessary. It would be better merely to recommend a language and require it only of graduate students in the field, as is regularly done in Slavic courses...
...days of classical education in secondary schools such a course would be unnecessary. However, with Latin and Greek no longer in favor and Bible reading for its own sake almost a thing of the past, some means must be found to make the myth, not the footnote, come alive for modern students. It seems sentimental to believe that a student who has already passed the language requirement will begin a program of Greek in order to read Homer in the original. It is not unrealistic, however, to study classical works in translation as myths which are to occur again...
...storm troopers invaded the university in Frankfurt and beat up leftist students. Tillich stood horrified in the midst of the melee, and in the investigation that followed took a vociferous part against the Nazi thugs. As soon as Hitler came to power the following year, Tillich read in the newspaper that he had been dismissed from the faculty...
...becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...