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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leprosy is less contagious than almost any other communicable disease" [TIME, 17] is correct up to a certain point but should be amplified. It is the adult who is highly resistant-though in the history of Kalaupapa Settlement of Hawaii two missionaries, both . . . indifferent regarding contact, have acquired the infection...
With that kind of setup, it was no particular trick for Ole Gene. Unworried by popular majorities, he bypassed the cities where Carmichael appealed to the voters (including Georgia's 650,000 adult Negroes belatedly enfranchised this year). He just concentrated on the farmers. Gene had always had the farmers right by their pet prejudices. Once more, he snapped his red galluses at them, borrowed chaws of cut plug from crowds, ranted about the Negro menace, the labor menace, the new carpetbaggers-and promised little but a return to normalcy, Georgia style...
...less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...
Repair Omissions, Fill Gaps. Sir Richard, who recognizes the fact that education is a lifelong process, is one of adult education's most persuasive salesmen. He believes in a special kind-"not only for those who have missed a complete education, but also for those who have received one." He would have Anglo-Saxon countries take a lesson from Denmark's "people's high schools," which are not high schools but residential colleges for adults. There men & women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live...
...secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward the classical clinch...