Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academy teams stress condition, running, and accurate passing. Deerfield has played only one game so far this year, losing to the Yale freshmen...
...comparison between "Night Journey" and George Orwell's "1984" jumps out at the reader. Both books attempt to foresee a future world and future war through the extrapolation of present conditions, and stress the manipulation and distortion of the old channels of "truth," the press and the radio and the handbills. But "1984" attempted an all-inclusive description of a world, while "Night Journey" narrows that world into a few people in one small area and is exactly the more effective for that narrowing. The future world of "Night Journey" is a terrible, muddled, complicated thing. It is a logical...
McCarthy admitted: "In the case of Lattimore, I may have perhaps placed too much stress on the question of whether or not he has been an espionage agent." What was really important, said he, was Latti-more's position as chief "architect of our Far Eastern policy . . . forgetting for the time being any question of membership in the Communist Party or participation in espionage...
Lawrence Kupferman, of the Massachusetts School of Art, began the discussion. He observed that the modern stress on mathematics and the sciences has been one of the most important influences on abstract painting...
...wanted a background in English literature once took English 1. They don't any more. English 1 attempts to cover almost every English author from Beowulf to Beerbohm; it plummets through a thousand-year time span at a pace which leaves Shakespeare and Milton two lectures apiece. Examinations stress spot passages and details about the authors. When a man is through with English 1, he knows that "Proud-pied April dressed in all his trim" is from Sonnet XCVIII, and two semesters' worth of similar facts. This mass of detail may be an essential basis for English concentrators...