Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulletin Board. The anniversary issue was hardly must reading on Broadway (as weekly Variety usually is), even for the advertisers who had subsidized it. In Hollywood, just a few months before, many of them had felt a similar bite for the 28th anniversary issue of the Hollywood Reporter (384 pp.) and the silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice...
Still, Coates's Watsons has two virtues. One is purely malicious: bits of it can be read aloud to fanatical Janeites to see if they can guess the true author. The other virtue is that Author Coates has managed to recapture much of the attitude to love and life that Jane Austen once expressed in a single short query: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn...
Daddy is a well-to-do, eternally busy Kansas City attorney, who showers his wife with money as well as silence. Mrs. Bridge fills her days with abortive attempts to paint, to learn Spanish, to keep a scrapbook, to read. But her grasshopper attention is best held by gossipy lunches and club meetings. Novelist Connell seems to say that the very fatness of Midwestern life makes for fatheadedness in its citizens...
...remedial reading class, with an enrollment of 450, "has shifted from teaching the mechanics of reading to developing courage and judgment," Perry stated. "Its large enrollment demonstrates the degree to which students who can already read better than 95 per cent of U.S. freshmen realize their short comings...
...addition, this year's compulsory reading test for new students, the first of its kind given anywhere, "showed that, while incoming undergraduates had a lot of reading power, they still had a lot to learn about using it," he stated. The test, which presented a history passage to be read and assimilated under normal study conditions, was an attempt to assess flexibility and concentration...