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...result of their work is easier to classify by age and sex than by country. Seven-year-old boys living on opposite sides of the globe are more apt to paint alike than a brother & sister a couple of years apart. The world of imagination, like the world of men, demands conscious loyalties, and all of the young exhibitors showed themselves able and loyal subjects of Andersen's fairy kingdom...
Preparing for his debut as a song-and-dance man in a big benefit show, Sir Laurence Olivier studiously twirled a cane and practiced his footwork in a London gymnasium, where veteran musicomedy Hoofer Jack Buchanan pronounced the actor an apt but self-conscious pupil...
Even the industrial countries are not secure, says Brown, because the populations of many of them are apt to increase faster than their industrial equipment. When this happens to a country, it will fall to something like the Indian level. If the surplus humans of the backward countries are permitted to migrate to the industrial ones, the end will come quicker...
...earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base in space than the much-discussed artificial satellite...
...Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...