Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more stable and serene breed of student is unknown, but it has undoubtedly had something to do with a startling rise in the birth rate among the educated classes. Not to be surpassed by the Veteran's Villages of the state universities, Harvard has recently done its bit to foster the large cultivated family, and incidentally save America from the Philistines. A few days ago Dean Elder announced that married students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences would be allowed to make $300 more than single students...
...absconded with some 9,000,000 yen contributed by visitors at his temple, spent 2.000,000 of it on geisha girls and cabarets and the rest on a sloe-eyed model whom he set up as mistress of her own bar. Admitting that "perhaps some priests have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck...
Although these characters are led along a road that is definitely a bit long, La Strada retains an unusual intensity in its brooding sadness...
Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative...
...Just a bit like South Pacific's Bloody Mary, President Eisenhower seems to have been concerned largely with "talking about things he'd like to do" to meet the nation's crucial education problem. For the President has succeeded only in setting other people talking about a problem which had become pressing several years before his election. Not that this talk has been without its uses. The White House Conference on Education did serve to stir the interest of either apathetie or conservative segments of the populace. Certain previously reactionary groups as a result of the conference have suddenly taken...