Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuffy blames spring football for the decline of college baseball. "Most of the big high schools today have at least six weeks of football practice in the spring," he claims, "and at some schools, they say 'let the chemistry master coach the baseball team.' That's why a lot of your college players lack the fundamentals." Like football Coach Art Valpey, Stuffy believes in making sure every player knows the fundamentals. He taught them at Norwich University, Brooks School, and Amherst for 15 years...
...mean to say that a newspaper article should never use the worlds Negro and colored. They are words describing one aspect of a person's physical appearance and should be used whenever that aspect is significant. If, for instance, Mr. Halloway had been designated by the Society for the Advancement of Colored Peoples as its outstanding student of the year, it would have been appropriate to describe him as a Negro, just as in an article about a man who couldn't buy shoes at the Coop because of his abnormally large foot it would be appropriate to mention...
...though neither the best written nor the most humorous. It tells about a wild chase two fellows make up and down the Eastern Seaboard attending parties held the same day but several hundred miles apart. Another story, "Banker's Holiday," is a suspiciously whimsical piece for the Lampoon. I say 'suspiciously' because I was expecting some dirty little hoax at the conclusion, but the author maintains the fantasy through the ending, and, except for its length and occasional awkwardness of diction ("Tom began to laugh. 'Oh hell,' he choked.") it is a creditable bit of fantasy...
Although the U.T. originally claimed the Liberal Union's selection of films was bringing them into competition, the management maintains that their only grievance is with the distributors. They say that the cancelled films were ones that were unobtainable to the Theater. The Theater fears a considerable loss of prestige when a non-profit organization of students pops up with a film they had been forced to tell their customers they could not get. Sixteen millimeter exhibitors are supposed to get films that are no longer desired by regular local theaters, and the U.T. considers these films still profitable...
With this sentence, Franz Kafka begins The Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with...