Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work was not being glossed over by hurried graders...
...honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment for the persons who would be hurt by athletic preference...
Moods & Mechanics. Holding the reader firmly but not condescendingly by the hand, Frankenberg plunges directly into the work of the modern poets. In an illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern...
...Records. The album of records accompanying Frankenberg's book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...
...only undergraduate in the trio in concentrating in English and intends to begin his study abroad next year, Brademas, who lived in Adams House while attending college, could not be reached for comment last night. Steiner, who received his B.A. from the University of College, is going graduate work in English...