Word: success
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
...Switch. In a strong, confident voice, Witness Philbrick matter-of-factly explained something that he and the Government had hidden well. "During the entire nine years of my activities," he said, "I have been continuously in touch with the FBI." The Government had reversed, with spectacular success, the old Red tactic of infiltration...
...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
Robinson Jeffers, American poet and anther has written a new version of Enripides' "Medea" and has made the Greek tragedy excellent modern theater fare. This is quite an accomplishment, but the success is not all Mr. Jeffers', nor did he intend it so. The "free adaptation" was written expressly for Judith Anderson. Mr. Jeffers has done double service to the theater in giving it an actable version of "Medea" and giving Miss Anderson an opportunity to make theater history...
There is no really fine verse in this adaptation and it offers on scholastic threat to the Euripides-Gilbert Murray success team. But Jeffers has reduced to a minimum the hard demands put upon an audience by a Greek tragedy; the number of mythological allusions and images is small and the diction is tuned for modern ears. It's a pity that the writer, who has a good sense of dramatic values, has no lyrical gift. Mr. Jeffers has had theater greatness thrust upon him by Miss Anderson...