Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Thoreau's Walden. Speakers: University of Chicago Philosophy Professor T. V. Smith, Chicago Tribune Book Editor Fred Babcock and Lynn A. Williams Jr., president of the Great Books Foundation...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...
Their intense, unhappy childish love affair becomes a public topic, and the moral heat is put on them. In desperation they run away, but are picked up and brought back. Eliza is sent to respectable friends in Boston for a few weeks to get over her experience. When she returns, she discovers that Claw's raging frustration and craving for emotional revenge have led him into a calculated affair with her younger sister. The weather in Eliza's heart has already begun to change: now it becomes cold and bleak and their relationship ends with cruelty on both...
...teacher doesn't have a good time while he's teaching," the professor says, "no one else does," and practices what he preaches by thoroughly enjoying each lecture. His mimicry, pantomime, and caustic remarks on every topic in the all-inclusive course resurrect authors and characters alike, and although the amours of the Cavalier poets may not appear on the final examination, few open-minded listeners object to his treatment of them. All but the most serious grinds have been able to consider a "hot" lecture as "atmosphere...
With a contract from the Globe in his pocket, Robert L. Moore '49, of Winthrop House and Concord sets off for the United Kingdom this summer to write a series of articles on the topic of "An American Soldier Revisits England Three Years Later...