Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly easy to understand why the pupils in our schools are lagging in writing [TIME, Dec. 22]. One reason is the lack of necessity to write. Every year hundreds of tests and examinations are given in the "True or False" method. The pupil is given a paper on which the questions are printed with a space after each question marked "True or False?" . . . All that is required of the pupil is to put a check mark in one or the other of open spaces! ... In the old days, at least we profited to a certain extent in learning to express...
...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
This is in response to your request that I of 1904 write something for the forthcoming Anniversary issue of the CRIMSON. The response is made very gladly because I am pleased to know that CRIMSON editors of the present time still recognize those of a class as far back as ours, and also because the CRIMSON was to me, as to many editors of our time, a most rewarding experience. I don't mean financially, although in those simple Theodore Roosevelt days our skillful business ends made the lot of even the plain editor not only literary but lucrative...
Equally colorful was the CRIMSON'S 70th birthday in 1943, and the President of the United States took time out to write, "As an old CRIMSON man I am sure that. . .I voice the sentiments of all that company of happy men when I say that none of them would exchange his CRIMSON training for any other experience or association in his college days...
...hands. How bright the sunlight was, on the warm grey stones, on the ripe Roman skins, on vermilion and lavender and blue and ermine and green and gold, on the indecent grotesque blackness of two blotches, on apostolic whiteness and the rose of blood." After Hadrian, Rolfe managed to write a vivid small novel, Don Tarquinio, but then financial troubles closed him round...