Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiters in Lindy's, and for most of the distance they give the customer a pretty fair run for his money. MacRae lays his wad on fast women, Borgnine on slow horses, and Dailey gives his paycheck to the ever-loving wife. But they all get together to write pretty little ditties (Sonny Boy, Black Bottom, Button Up Your Overcoat, Birth of the Blues), and Sheree North is usually around to sing them. The show glides along, smooth as a Detroit Air Cooled ("buoyant readability")-a dependable vehicle for those who long to be carried back to the days...
This imprecision has been the cause of considerable debate among faculty members, especially those concerned with the different advising services. It has led W. G. Perry, head of the Bureau, to write an article for the New York Academy of Sciences trying to picture the distinctions between teacher, adviser, counselor, and psychiatrist, without creating rigid divisions which he apparently considers a distortion of the real situation, which includes inevitable overlap...
...kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
...Some of the North Africans have been brought up in caves. Since Kurdish children are to be seen and not heard, their parents seldom converse with them, and the children never learn how to ask questions. They have never seen a book or heard a bedtime story. They cannot write their names. Their inquisitiveness blocked almost from birth, they succumb to total passivity. By the time they reach school, they can speak only about 100 words...
...just leaves, with nothing said about why he should. For another, the language is often pedestrian, particularly in those places when it is meant to soar as poetry. Yet these shortcomings pale nearly into insignificance in the light of the playwright's grand intention, which is at once to write a genuine tragedy and also to explain how his tragic view of life grew out of the problems of his own tortured family...