Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James B. Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard (picture at the right) will be the featured speaker this evening at the "Annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration," to be held today and tomorrow. The conference theme is "Another Look at The Secondary School," and Mr. Conant will discuss "What I Saw and What I Forsee in the Secondary School...
Revise & Rewrite. The great Strunkian theme: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject in outline, but that every word tell...
Actually, it is difficult to take offense at any particular passage in the screenplay. The discussions are conducted with verbal propriety and legal objectivity, and every one of them is necessary to the development of the theme. But it is possible to object to the theme itself, and to suspect that the moviemakers picked it principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition...
...theme of the Institute is "The Administrator Looks at the Educational Program--Review and Preview...
...look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...