Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through all such hassles, Superintendent Moreland went quietly about his work, upping teachers' salaries, importing the best assistants he could, and trying to be a voice for moderation. He bore Ebey's dismissal philosophically, did not even get ruffled when a local radio commentator named Joe Worthy took to the air to urge parents and pupils to form a secret club to tattle on teachers who did not echo the right-wing line. But last week Moreland's monumental patience came to an end when the board flung itself into another orgy of book banning...
...Earl Maughmer Jr., wife of a police sergeant. She objected to a widely used text called Geography of the World for High Schools because it praised the U.N. in the foreword, also condemned a book which Yale Geographer Stephen B. Jones helped write because one of its chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board member: "That's Socialism, isn't it?" Out went...
...soul-searching in Editor's first issue would have seemed even more impressive in the pages of the 22 New England papers that have chipped in to start the quarterly ($1.50 a copy) now being mailed to the editors of most U.S. dailies. But it bore out Editor Lindstrom's words. Items...
Excesses of spleen and puerility are seldom a playwright's assets. John Osborne, who can rant as forcefully as he rambles pointlessly, would doubtless be a bore as a mellow young man. But if he risks less anger some day, he can probably say more...
...tall, jaunty lecturer who took his place behind the lectern in London's Royal Festival Hall was obviously a personable sort. But that was no guarantee that he would not also be a crashing bore. After all, he was pretty much of an amateur at the illustrated lecture business. His subject, "My Story of the Commonwealth Tour," sounded a bit dull, and his audience-2,000 teen-agers imported by the Ministry of Education's Imperial Institute from schools in London and the Home Counties-was not the easiest kind to handle. Nevertheless, from the minute His Royal...