Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KAGANOVICH: An old hand, perhaps the most self-effacing of the lot, and therefore apt to be underrated on the outside, but regarded as a steadying influence among rival factions...
Gone the jitters which formerly hung in the rather feverish atmosphere. Gone the talk of "inevitable" war and calamity which until the other day was apt to lace nearly every conversation. Gone the talk of recessions, and depressions just around that corner. Today the mood everywhere is mild. But it is the mildness of the strong man who has little to fear...
...Sympathy. Though some of his colleagues still call him Denka (Your Imperial Highness, or Honorable Member of the Imperial Palace), most of his students have learned to address him as Sensei (Learned One). They have also learned that if they go to the cafeteria after class, they are apt to find him chatting away over a favorite dish that is now known as Prince Noodles. Then, with a friendly nod, the new professor departs-followed by an attendant whose solemn duty it is to tell him exactly what was wrong with his morning lecture...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
...born magazine writer, wife of a teacher and mother of two grown children. On lecture tours, she has long attacked this slowly hardening concept of man as "a million divided by a million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous, for men are apt to behave as they are expected to, and the common man may become deadly common - conformist putty in the hands of science and society. He does not want to stick his neck out or get his feelings "mixed up" in things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous...