Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uppers, the thought was as repulsive as the word. Or, as Editor Jocelyn Stevens might put it: "Not while the ins are in, and the outs want...
...teachers pleaded crowded classrooms and the children's poverty. But Shepard was tired of excuses. Drive, desire and ambition, he snapped, are as much a part of school success as native ability. He called parents together in meeting after meeting prescribed homework and more homework, sparked them to want to boost their children's grades. If parents were too uneducated to help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents over and over...
...published in the U.S. (it was written in 1953) does not back off an inch from the chasm. Watt is a worthy literary companion to such other Beckett anti-heroes as Murphy, Malone and Mahood. Like them, he does not have a chance, and does not really want...
...ties with Kirkland House and will maintain offices at both places. "I try to get down to meals at the House about four times a week, and I don't see why that should change," he said. Then he added wryly, "I may spend more time at Kirkland--might want to get away from Moors...
...request, the Bevingtons will spend the summer in England, with a week or so on the Continent. While in England, the Bevingtons plan to do some writing and studying, as well as traveling. Bevington said, "I've got to read a lot of Henry James," then corrected himself, "I want to read a lot of Henry James...