Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death. (I do not speak here of the book clubs, circulating libraries, paperbounds, and imported brown-covered erotica; Henry Miller and Herman Wouk bestride this cultural colossus, alternately sagacious and sadistic with their American public...
...following weeks Paul Henle, professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, will talk on the "Metaphor." George Eden Kirk, associate professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut, will speak on "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity." Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, will discuss "A Look at Education in the USSR." And Albert H. Halsey, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, England, will lecture on "English Higher Education...
...Thursday, July 24, Alexander Soper, professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, will speak on "The Study of Mankind in Chinese Painting." Starting at 8:30 p.m., the lecture will be held in the Fogg Museum large lecture room...
From Carnegie to Ford. The grandson of the famed "Flying Duchess" who set speed records in her plane until the day she disappeared into the blue (1937), John Robert Russell was destined to be a bit out of the ordinary. His father was a religious eccentric who did not speak to his own father for 20 years, once tried to negotiate a peace with Hitler, spent a fortune attempting to develop a breed of homing budgerigars, and so hated all schools, as a result of his life at Eton, that he insisted his children be privately tutored. Young John...
...language. Even after independence in 1948, the official language of Ceylon remained English. In their homes and at work, the people of Ceylon speak either Sinhalese, the language of some 6,000,000 Buddhists on the island, or Tamil, spoken by about 2,000,000 Hindus, the descendants of migrants to Ceylon from India over the centuries. The present government of wispy Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, made up of an odd lot of left-wing parties, came to power two years ago, pledged to turn Ceylon neutralist and to make Sinhalese the "national language." When challenged...