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...spend exactly one night a week (Saturday) "enjoying relaxation." One woman who objected to this schedule was released from Liu's group with a letter of condemnation. No school or employer dared to take her on, and she was soon utterly destitute. By this time, Liu had become adept at turning out the kind of prop wash the party liked, but he wondered "how long it would be before the pressures on my own mind and the conflicts in my own heart and feelings would become in tolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind Mao's Lines | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Somehow the Brahmins of Beacon Hill who run this place seem to have been particularly adept at picking Presidents in the past; why not give them another chance? H. E. Heinemann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAHMINS' CHOICE | 1/31/1953 | See Source »

Conditioning, granted, is an important factor, yet most football men are adept at other spots as well; they could just as easily keep in shape, gain more enjoyment and bolster the college's entire athletic program by participating in othergames. Then, too, I have heard just as many groans in the tall, spring practice or no, after summers which all too many athletes spend getting out of condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rite of Spring | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

British humorist and onetime M.P. Sir Alan P. Herbert, who recently wrote letters to editors suggesting that harsher punishment should fit the crime of burglary, interviewed a prospective cook who told him that she was not only adept in the kitchen but was most interested in re-reading some of his books. He hired her. After serving one meal, she left, taking with her A.P.'s family silver. Said the police later: the cook, better known as "Mary Jane," had a record of bilking some 50 other households in much the same way. Said A.P.: "It is some consolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Joseph Roisman, the first violinist, could not appear because of a band injury, so Jac Gorodetzky, Boris Kroyt, and Mischa Schneider were joined by pianist Arthur Balsam. The noted accompanist proved himself to be equally adept as an cuscmble performed...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Budapest Quartet | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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