Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost two-thirds of the anthology is devoted to poets who lived into or wholly within the twentieth century, and many of the old standbys of the Genteel Tradition are given much less space than they have been accustomed to in the past. ("I have tried to wring the neck of the kind of rhetoric that overflowed into poetry from the oratory of the day, and that was fulsome even there. Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell were the worst offenders...
This 25th anniversary gift has been a tradition since the early years of the twentieth century when a College class paid for the cost of the stadium. In over 45 years since then, no class has failed to give at least...
College and Radcliffe students are just as happy as people who grew up in the comparatively peaceful days of the early twentieth century, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, writes in the November issue of American Magazine...
...Twentieth-Century Fox has unfortunately overlaid McKelway's remarkable story with a vencer of slick plot and slovenly acting. An incipient love theme stumbles awkwardly in and out of the hunt for 880; it involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful...
...Tech administration took a long look west on Massachusetts Avenue, then took a look at itself and started to plan the core of a new humanities program. Like Harvard and its G.E. Committee, M.I.T. was worried about what specialization would do to the thinking processes of twentieth-country...