Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story that can be completely made or broken by the cast, and here the Cambridge Players are the makers of an enjoyable production. Cobra Wither spoon as guest star and leading lady takes her part in easy and capable stride, that puts and audience at case and draws the best out of the supporting cast. Jack Sheehan, Allan Tower, Louise Kanasireff, and actor-director Robert Perry match her with professional experience and smoothness. Also, there is the usual and pleasant sprinkling of handsome young actors and beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer...
...Williams, associate professor of Philosophy, denounced courses which deal in the works of great men and maintained that the humanities should be brought as near realities as the physical sciences. In his avocation of a controlled curriculum, he was opposed by John C. Robbins '42, who said that "spoon-feeding" of students was already far too prevalent...
This definition assumes that the student always does some taking in and some giving out. He absorbs, memorizes, digests the lectures and reading material. This he is expected to remember for specific examinations. This he is spoon-fed. This, in the long run, is what he forgets. Who was Catherine of Sienna, and on what day did Hitler burn the Reichstag? The particulars are soon lost. What is "left over," what remains, is the ability to make accurate generalizations, to get to the heart of an issue and make comprehensive deductions from any given set of facts. To retain this...
...watchmen" he hopes to see arise, he points out a few things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...
...spoon-fed director meets Veronica (I Wanted Wings) Lake (called simply The Girl), an out-of-work chorine headed for home & mother. They team up. The Girl annoys Sullivan by praising his comedies, by condemning sociological epics ("There's nothing like a deep-dish movie to drive you out in the open...