Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note: "You will, I am sure, readily agree that the Queen is entitled to expect that her family will attain the privacy at home which all other families are entitled to enjoy." Royal employees are now required to sign a pledge not to publish or "give any information . . . which might...
When Director Edwin Spengler of Brooklyn's School of General Studies and his assistant director, Bernard Stern, first began working on the experiment, they had already decided that the regular undergraduate program (enrollment: 15,000) was not entirely suitable for adults. For one thing, some grownups object to being put in a class with boys and girls half their age. More important, many have learned enough on their own to put them way ahead in some subjects. Even without an A.B., a businessman is apt to know quite a bit about economics. A writer should have learned something...
Last spring, after getting a $15,000 grant from Chicago's Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Director Spengler and Associate Professor (of English) Stern asked the faculty to recommend adults for the experiment. Of the 130 applicants, Spengler and Stern chose 32. Each student was supposed to cover the regular undergraduate work (128 credits), but before he started he was allowed to take examinations on any subject he thought he could pass without taking the regular course. The adults could go to class or not as they chose; they got extra reading assignments, had special...
...major misdemeanors are underdone Wiener Schnitzel and overdone Central European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a somber, loose-jointed documentary on the rise and fall of a big party wheel in Communist Czechoslovakia. Wechsberg's Communist hero-heel is named Bruno Stern, but his career closely parallels that of the late Rudolf Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged in a 1952 show trial. In explaining how Slansky-Stern went bad, Author-Journalist Wechsberg offers a somewhat oversimplified ugly-duckling theory. Bruno Stern's first...
...Stern, who in the past has won 95 percent of his games in simultaneous competition, thinks that this time lack of match practice may keep him down to the 852 percent mark...