Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More in Summer." Headmaster Clark, a Phillips Exeter and Amherst ('17) man, was neither a football man nor a professional educator. He was a businessman who had once run an audience-survey company with Claude (Hooperating) Hooper. But he remembered what Harvard's Bliss Perry had once said during a summer course. "Everyone learns more in summer," said Perry, "because he concentrates on a single subject." Headmaster Clark decided that education might be like that all year 'round...
...long before polls became a national preoccupation, an inquisitive schoolteacher named Estelle M. Darrah decided to find out what sort of heroes & heroines children had. She polled 1,440 youngsters, aged 12 to 14. Last week, after finishing a similar survey of his own, Professor Lawrence A. Averill of Worcester (Mass.) State Teachers College reported in School and Society how times and heroes have changed...
Episcopal Sewanee and Nashville's Peabody College were having their first Cumberland Forest Festival: a kind of Tanglewood of the South, directed by lean, sandy, U.S. Symphonist Roy Harris. The festival highlight: a mid-century survey of 20th Century music...
...Sewanee's All Saints' Chapel last week, a capacity crowd of 600 heard the second concert in the festival's survey. The audience was lulled into false security with some Haydn and Mozart quartets, then given the business: Walter Piston's new (1949) piano quintet, with Harris' wife Johana ("Lady Jo") at the piano. Written in modern idiom, with awkward, angular intervals, grating harmonies and jolting semi-jazz rhythms, it left its listeners bewildered and politely awed. When it was over, the audience stood up (applause in the chapel was ruled out) to show...
...love the country, of course " said Macy's, Manhattan's biggest department store, in a holiday ad this week. "The air is so fresh, the grass is so green, the animals are so audible. But . . . Does the country love us?" Pausing to "survey the blandishments that have lured many a New Yorker away from the safe familiarity of asphalt pavements and carbon monoxide," Macy's offered its own glossary of country terms and phrases for New Yorkers. Excerpts...