Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps will operate a new program to train selected college juniors this summer at six colleges and universities across the country. About one-sixth of the juniors who have applied to the Corps will be made eligible for this special summer training...
Paris and Helen took off together in a glorified canoe. Mark Antony and his Egyptian lady friend floated around in a perfumed barge. Louis XIV used a carriage, and Edward VII a train. Leander swam - and drowned. Today's expense-account philanderers pursue their sinful pleasures more securely...
...presented "Terror" despite the Transit Authority's protest that no incident like that had ever occurred on their subways. Next day an off-duty city detective was shot to death by a gang of teen-age thugs on an IRT train in Brooklyn...
...knows the truth about Billy Liar. Escaping to London is a snap, she says. "You just buy a ticket and get on a train-that's all you do." In a bitter climax, laughter gives way to self-knowledge, to quiet defeat. While Liz heads for London alone, Billy saunters back toward the cold but certain comforts of home-and the loyal troops of Ambrosia fall into step behind...
...letter raised as well several red herrings. One is that a course for credit in drama would attempt (if it were ever instituted formally) to combine "elements of English literature courses with elements of actor training." Such an assumption may derive, I think, from a mistaken inference regarding the purpose of this spring's experimental project planned to celebrate the Shakespeare Marlowe Quadricentennial. If "actor training" occurs when undergraduates stage an important dramatic text, all well and good;this sort of training is nevertheless not a goal of the project. That goal is two-fold; first, to teach...