Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrate in the fields of bio-chemistry, biology, chemistry, or physics. The present letter directed toward Freshmen is to caution such concentration. Having talked with members of the admission committees for three medical schools, and with dozens of graduating pre-medical science concentrators as well as medical students, the writer would like to summarize the information so gained...
...life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...
...most significant part of Mr. Kahn's book comes in the foreword by Thomas Mann. The venerable German writer testifies "that I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency'. . .. that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what follows fascism...
Regarding your editorial about English 1 in Saturday's paper, I would like to quote briefly from a letter I recently received. The writer of the letter graduated from Harvard at the end of the Summer Term, 1948 and is now working for advanced degrees at Trinity College, Dublin. The standards in English Literature at Dublin are reputed to be high...
...emotional seismographs record letter-writer Travis' tremors over teaching sex in the Oregon schoolrooms. Her theory is that knowledge leads to experimentation [TIME, April 12]. The truth is exactly the opposite . . . Curiosity is a powerful emotion, and . . . knowledge satisfies curiosity, thus greatly reducing the emotional pressures...