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...three hours, the explainers picked on one P.W. and put him through what the U.N. called a "cruel and inhuman ordeal." Seventeen times the P.W. tried to leave the tent, but was induced to return. Seven times the U.N. observer protested, often with Swiss and Swedish support; the Indian chairman denied the appeal. But Indian General Thimayya heard what was going on and hurried over to the tent. He listened, then led the P.W. out by the hand, while the explainers shouted, "Come back, come back." The third day's count: explanations, 430; conversions...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who followed Eliot in 1909, set out to develop traditions of scholarship. concentration for honors was encouraged; ordinary concentrating made a must. At least six of the required seventeen courses had to be in the same field. With the sobering influence of World War I, students began to take their work seriously...
...Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
Playwright Peterson has captured Spencer's seventeen-ness admirably, and High-School Senior Louis Gossett plays him well. There is a fresh, humorous smack to the writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely...
...parole in 1942) and Walter had to take charge, he quickly proved that he knew the difference between Matisse and Adams. Against the stiff competition of Robert McLean's Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While the Bulletin added readers with its quiet, unexcited coverage, the Inquirer picked up its own circulation by digging...