Word: blues
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Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
...teachers who are there, as he puts it, because "they give a damn." The group includes 24 men, a high percentage for an elementary school. Although the enrollment is predominantly Negro, 33 teachers are white. Thirty are under 25. Many are recent graduates of Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and other blue-chip colleges. Belittling his own plain-cut clothes, Principal Lee, a Chinese American, says: "I'm a bum-but most of my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits...
...apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine days later, of radiation poisoning...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
...sergeant enters, the guards are suddenly heel-clicking marionettes, wooden parodies of soldiers, drained of emotion as they parrot back orders. The camera lingers on the faces of Evans and O'Rourke, the Mutt and Jeff of the absurd, one fearful, the other flashing madness from bright blue eyes...