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Winthrop residents contributed the highest average gift, $8.10 per person, while $7.25 was the overall College average. Leverett, Kirkland, and Eliot led in the House totals, and the response of Lowell has improved so that it will now probably attain its goal...
Thus, it is possible to attain desirable elements of urban life outside the central city without any of the disadvantages of the city...
Summer and Smoke (Hal Wallis; Paramount). Playwright Tennessee Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily...
...avoid these errors, look-say advocates were driven to "vocabulary control" in readers that focus on a few "safe" words. When this worked badly, experts invented "reading readiness" tests, which in effect blame children for being slow. As it stands, "research shows" that a child must attain a "mental age" of precisely 6½ before he is "ready" to read-even if common sense shows that many a child is dying to read at 4½. As a result, charges Critic Walcutt, 75% of U.S. youngsters do not read as well as they could, and "at least 35% of them...
...attain the stature it requires in the American broadcasting industry, it must act quickly and decisively. To attain respectability, it must strictly enforce the principles and provisions of the Code of Good Practices. To gain acceptability, it must adopt a more realistic policy on such subjects as hard liquor advertising...