Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until recently, Shakespeare in this country (as in England) suffered from an inflated conception of the leading role and the personality of its portrayer, and from settings and props so ponderous and realistic that the long between-the-scenes waits necessitated wholesale abridgements of the text. No wonder the audience's patience was exhausted...
...Over Text. In Port Arthur, Texas, the Don Drive-in Theater advertised that its "Back-to-School" program would include "Hot Rod Rumble, Portland Expose, Teenage Doll, The Come On, Crime in the Streets, Young Guns, plus Glamour Gals of Burlesque...
...saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing his own sprightly colloquialisms with the archaic grandeur of the Malory text. Author White finally sweeps his characters to their tragic ends...
...week graduated 300 teachers familiar with the M.I.T. committee's radically new theories of physics teaching and able to handle a wide repertoire of new experiments. During the eight-week courses sponsored this summer by the National Science Foundation, the high school teachers suggested changes in the M.I.T. text, enthusiastically accepted the basic idea: lead students to discover physics concepts through experiments, rather than use experiments to verify laws already memorized. Other M.I.T. innovations: increased emphasis on theoretical rather than applied physics; less electrical circuitry, greater stress on atomics; early teaching of the principle of wave action, to give...
...bold and dramatic episode. With an Indian guide, armed companions and his "blackamoor" bodyguard, he walked into a deserted cave where ancient Indian deities were still worshiped. Coming upon a grim idol and ignoring its scowl, he ordered the idol removed. In church next Sunday, he preached on the text: "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." At a suitable moment the friar produced the idol and had it chopped to pieces with an ax and burnt. Later the idolaters had Gage cudgeled, stabbed and put in such fear of his life that the local authorities sent a train...