Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been writing," he exploded in accusation, "I don't know how in hell you found time ... I admit I didn't want you to." Thereupon he wrote Thurber out of the imagined society of efficient journalists and treated him as a sort of basket case. "I was a completely different man," writes Thurber ". . . one of the trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy [E.B.] White and Wolcott Gibbs. Our illnesses, or moods, or periods of unproductivity were a constant source of worry to him. When I was . . . undergoing a series of eye operations...
...Szena Square only a rare pockmark remains. On the corner where the fighting was most savage, an old woman stands, basket in arm, selling hens. On the surface normalcy has returned. Grass and flowers now surround the tree where an AVH (secret police) colonel once hung. Gone from the parks and squares are the temporary graves of the Freedom Fighters. The Russians have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food...
...with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could sell the milk...
Some makers are already off to a good start in taking their eggs out of the military basket. This year's civilian orders are up 600% for Rem-Cru Titanium Inc., owned jointly by Remington Arms Co. and Crucible Steel Co. of America. The total is still small, but a few big contracts are beginning to roll in. Last week Freeport Sulphur Co. ordered about $500,000 worth of titanium tubing from Titanium Metals Corp. of America to carry a highly corrosive ore slurry at Freeport's new nickel and cobalt mine in Cuba...
...Sacred Laws. With such a definition; much of the trivia and confusion now rampant in the schools would be eliminated. Such skills as reading, for instance, are obviously indispensable in making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...