Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best Years of Our Lives. A story about returning veterans; William Wyler's inspired direction gets some inspired acting out of Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell (TIME...
Among the tutors and associates who, among other things, have helped foster regular. House academic discussions in various fields are Professors Howard Mumford Jones and Perry Miller of the English Department, Professor Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of the General Education program, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Thomas R. Powell, Story Professor of Law, and Charles S. Burwell, Dean of the Medical School...
White-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, as usual, went further: he urged that all colleges should shut down for ten years (they were too departmentalized). Also, the U.S. Presidency and State Department should be abolished, and the capital moved closer to the heart of the country. Wright thought cities should be abandoned. "The city," Wright averred, "is a stimulus similar to alcohol, ending in similar degeneracy or impotence-for no city can maintain itself by way of its own birth rate, and a glance at history shows us that all civilizations have died of their cities...
Soon, "with the help of large-hearted students," Yogananda built his first U.S. GHQ: the Self-Realization Fellowship, near Los Angeles. Favored disciples-such as his barefooted, youthful American secretary, Mr. Wright; and Miss Ettie Bletch, "an elderly lady from Cincinnati" -accompanied the master on triumphal speaking tours. Another group of disciples, U.S. businessmen, built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white...
...field of 20 students competing in the preliminary contest held last Wednesday, are: Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward A. W. Franklin '47, William P. D. Bailey '46. J. Jay Hughes '48, Michael D. Dawson '46, Robert K. Bingham '48, Henry P. Robbins '48, Paul C. Richter '46, Paul L Wright '49, and Lawrence Creshkoff...