Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Paul Engle of the University of Iowa agrees: "You can't treat the writing of poetry as if it were a course, say, in history, where the student can gather facts and attitudes and offer a paper which is essentially 'true.' ... A poem is not a study of a problem, but a strange melting together of sound in the ear, of conception in the mind, of impulse in the nervous system, of old actions mired in the memory. The most the teacher can do is to probe the body of the poem for lesions that corrupt...
...world where beat-and-swing-and-pack-'em-in no longer pays off, Les Brown advises: "Hire good men, make hit records, treat the men well, make hit records . . . hold on to the men, make hit records." For the Band of Renown, it works pretty well...
...boys didn't try to kiss me the first time I went out with them. One was a blind date--I didn't like him and he didn't like me--and the other was a young intern, definitely above average, who really knew how to treat a woman...
...treatment of these people, it may not always have been apparent that we viewed them as benefactors. They may have seemed "straw men," or something equally derogatory. But it doesn't really matter how roughly we treat them. If they are broken in handling, we have faith that new people will arise to take their place, for the world that runs out of editorial topics will be a dull one indeed...
...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...