Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, with the exception of such proven masters of the sharply written, razor-edged tale as John Collier, Roald Dahl, and Saki, few of Hitchcock's authors can both write well and create an intriguing situation or plot. The book's first few selections are rather dull cases in point, and make an unfortunate beginning for an anthology. The editor's idea of arranging authors in reverse alphabetical order is perhaps commendably simple, but hardly functional for anyone who reads more than one story at a time. In this case the arrangement leads to a most uninviting first fifty pages...
...University of Chicago gives especially promising students a "tutorial" year, allows them to settle upon one field and to choose courses and "planned leisure" activities related to it. To get an A.B., students must pass stiff written and oral exams and write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done...
...FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS are expected to be stopped soon. Congress and Treasury Secretary Humphrey are lining up behind Senator Byrd's bill to end write-offs except for plants to produce new weapons for which present facilities are unsuitable. Byrd claims Treasury loses billions...
When an irresistible force called a tourist meets an immovable object called a country, the result is sometimes a travel book. The tourists who consistently write the best travel books are those literate and indefatigable nomads, the British. Two lively new British travelogues, one thinly disguised as a novel, cover such comparatively avant-garde areas of modern tourism as Turkey and the isles of Greece...
...problems. The first is that, as in most group tutorials, nobody does the work before the meetings, which means that the tutors must become lecturers--an expensive luxury. The most obvious remedy is to convert group tutorial into a seminar, in which students are expected to write weekly papers to serve as a basis of discussion. This not only ensures that they come to class with something to say, but forces them to think far more carefully about their reading and their responses than is now the case...