Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping with attitudes of mind learned at Harvard, these essays are not emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...
...break in survey courses brought about by Perry's Emerson course was only temporary. Other survey-type courses in American literature were being added to the English Department. In 1914, "Puritanism in English and American Literature." Chester N. Greenough, the third "founder" of United States literature study here, taught that...
...gaining a very few votes, Dworshak effectively halted renaming the Clearwater for a man who made a tremendous contribution to the cause of conservation. Lucius Beebe, in his paper, The Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise, called Dworshak "an illiterate clod" for his actions. But, despite this type of reaction, conservative inertia and political expediency will probably triumph. Idahoans will continue to revel in the historical and aesthetic significance of the name "Clearwater...
...Naval Research Laboratory in Washington reported that the signals faded out about 4 p.m. yesterday but were again picked up strongly at 10 p.m. There was no variation in the type or frequency of the signal...
...Parker and Michael Gough hilariously lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...