Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since existentialism includes a large number of literary and semi-literary works, the question arises as to what literature is "existential" and what is not. Professor Earle regards Sartre's literary work as "realist" rather than existential. "For my money," he said, "Samuel Beckett is doing the most authentic existentialist writing...
...Auditions of the Air, Brooklyn-born Bob Merrill crooned with bands on the borscht circuit, made a famous recording of The Star-Spangled Banner for Fox Movietone News (from which he got the nickname "The Star-Spangled Baritone"), pitched a few seasons of semi-pro baseball. He still sings regularly in Las Vegas nightclubs, once explained his devotion to opera: "I'd like to be a comedian, but their material wears out so fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing for me-guys like Verdi, Puccini, Bizet." For all his clowning, Merrill...
Three weks ago John Tlumak initiated a new policy which called for semi-weekly publication of the regular weekly campus newspaper, The Seawanhaka. Tlumak's purpose for increasing publication, he said, was "to better inform the student body of campus activities," but the faculty objected to the new policy and the editorial board was told to revert to its old weekly policy...
Blood pledged to the semi-annual Phillips Brooks House drive "should exceed last fall's total," Leon Rothenberg '60, co-chairman of the drive, commented yesterday. Although the campaign has not been completed, over 1000 pints have been promised...
...setting of The Bell is a lay community of semi-contemplatives, a kind of British Brook Farm attached to Imber Abbey, which houses an order of enclosed Anglican nuns. Imber is made up of a rather odd parcel of stuffed hairshirts. They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders...