Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amherst's John Estey, an assistant dean who has written in The Nation on this subject, proposes a third solution, combining the philosophy of universal service with the practical realization that intelligent people can serve in non-military ways. Estey would exempt college students who can find teaching jobs and are willing to serve in them for a period of three years or so. This plan proposes to solve both the educational shortage and manpower surplus problems of the nation, as well as making the individual aware of and at least somewhat enthusiastic about his public duty. It makes...
Applications for graduate and under-graduate speakers at Commencement will be accepted until April 10 by Cedrie H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin. Written drafts of the speeches. which should not be over six minutes in length, should be submitted at 14 Holyoke House. This year the Houses are planning to nominate members to participate in the traditional contest...
...mail. Rosetta resolutely kept at her lessons, switching to a battery radio and kerosene lamp when the family's moody generator failed, and her teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors-one of the few New Zealanders to make it all the way through radio school, and the first of the group to be accepted for teacher training...
...from Montana would give up everything to fight in Spain. But today Robert Jordan, even in the hands of as good an actor as Jason Robards Jr., is hardly more than a cliché cut out of old newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only Pablo, the broken guerrilla leader, who became a really moving figure; as played by Nehemiah Persoff...
...Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them are implausibly naive...