Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
California's Governor Earl Warren, 57, father of six, got an election-year posy. He was named one of the "most virile men in America" by an organization calling itself the International Artists Committee. Among the other he-men honored: Cinemactors Clark Gable, 47, and Victor ("Gorgeous Hunk of Man") Mature. Gushed the committee' s chairman: "They're positively loaded with hormones...
Goodbye, Snobbery. In the new America, Conant argues, art, literature and history cannot be sold in the schools on the oldtime snob appeal. But smart teachers will have no trouble peddling their substance in the form of handy guides to how the U.S. got the way it is ("Curiosity is more widely distributed than innate love of literature"). While imparting this kind of general education, Conant says, schoolteachers must keep an eye out for "gifted" boys & girls. Conant thinks that students with special aptitudes for mathematics and languages can be spotted in high school, almost as early as those with...
Nevertheless, here & there through history, men had speculated about the mind's disorders. Paracelsus, born the year after Columbus discovered America, came to a conclusion about the dual nature of the mind that today's psychiatrists have very little quarrel with. Wrote Paracelsus...
Will TV eventually put the movies out of business? Last week, on America's Town Meeting of the Air (ABC, Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T.), experts on both films and TV considered this question, while swapping confident grins that just missed looking like a baring of teeth...