Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grasp of character. Her farmers and their boys and girls, tense, neurotic, esthetically inclined individuals whose emotional boiling points were low, were constantly being shaken by brief but elemental passions which were all out of proportion to any apparent cause. In moments of peace and release they seemed to wander over the farmlands in a daze of sensuous awareness, savoring barnyard scenes and country beauties like city people spending their first vacation out of town...
...Wander in dreams no more...
Section men also have a very important role. When the uninitiated wander for the first time in the broad fields of government, English, sociology, etc., they are bound to become a little exhilarated and need the steady guidance of a section man who can present the subject in clear and interesting terms. Too often at present section men are chosen solely because they are Ph.D. candidates and need assistantships. This is placing the cart before the horse for the necessary teaching ability may be completely lacking...
...Introduction: In many courses, the brilliant students have been held back by the slow members of the sections, and have not been able to cover as much ground as they could have otherwise. The conference groups in History 1, for example, wander far afield from the required work of the course. With the purpose of making introductory courses more interesting for the good student and less embarrassing for the bad, we recommend...
...female nude began to fade when he was nearing 70 and practically paralyzed by arthritis, but Mme Renoir knew that Renoir nudes were what the public wanted. The dimpled housemaids that she hired were used as models between meals.* Occasionally the old gentleman's mind would wander; he would fill the corners of his canvases with exciting studies of vegetables, fruit, flowers. These were carefully...