Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After performing for servicemen for five and a half years, Miss Carroll went back to Hollywood, even though she didn't like it, because she had nowhere else to go. She stayed just long enough to make "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "An Innocent Affair...
...worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...
...seminar was started three years ago by three graduate students in the University as a school of American studies for Europeans. It is sponsored by the Student Council land draws its staff entirely from Harvard, though the faculty is chosen from college and universities all over the country...