Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able, almost all of you, to work in peace. In certain ways your position is probably better than that of a neutral country...
...first arrivals was last week reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken. The unhappy Jews were virtual slaves. The area around the city was entirely hedged in by barbed wire and bayonets. Gradually the Jews were herded from the station, given quarters of sorts, put immediately to work (twelve hours a day) on roads, fields, bogs, buildings...
...first time to the student body, Design for Education chronicles the Sarah Lawrence educational method typified in the four-year career of a candidate for an A.B. degree. "Joan," the heroine, is Marjory Erdman, a sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...
...Harvard's Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in teaching. His half-year course is labeled "Poetry," but Frost gives himself a wide range. Some of his class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says. If you repeat a thing three times, it isn't true any more." Nobody ever flunks Teacher Frost's "course." "Don't write for A's" says he, "write for keeps...
...lights gleaming over the marquee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...