Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blunt literalism sadly lacks the intellectual subtleties that Pirandello so often brought to the same theme. Julian meets Miss Alice (Irene Worth) and at the end of Act II is seduced by her. The seduction scene owes a discernible if unintentional debt to Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More. In that play, Mrs. Goforth, also an enormously wealthy woman, nakedly tempted a poet-saint in her offstage boudoir. From stage center, Miss Alice tempts the lay-brother saint. With her bare-shouldered back to the audience, she whips open her black negligee...
Such an air propelled train was one of many possible railroads of the future envisaged by William W. Selfert, dean of engineering at M.I.T., and head of the federally financed "Project Transport...
Selfert seen one solution in trains which would be made up as they went along. A special car, for example, might be boarded at Providence, accelerate to the speed of the train and couple on as it passed. Getting off the train would be accomplished in much the same...
...also because the Gen Ed course tries to introduce a student to an understanding and appreciation of a broad field of knowledge that it should be required. Gen Ed must look to the years after college when a man is a specialist, professional, or technocrat. It must train him for another role--nothing less than a citizen whose quality of mind can comprehend a pluralistic society...
...late father to walk out on the Hawkes brood of seven. At 25, Ben Joe is head of the house. But only nominally, for his sisters, even the ten year-old, are as self-possessed as Mother. Drawn by his need to be needed, Ben Joe takes the night train back to Sandhill, N.C. Five nights later, he is traveling north again, with the bitter realization that he is still unneeded at home. But with him is his diffident, dependent old high school girl to serve as "his own little piece of Sandhill transplanted." She will radiate, if little light...