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...printmaking, came back and taught it to the eager Cape Dorset artisans. But the Eskimo print method is still very much his own. He chips the face of the stone flat, then painstakingly files it smooth. Next he polishes the surface by rubbing it with seal oil. Then, brow creased, the Eskimo feels the stone, lets its texture and shape tell him what design is in it. As he works, he depends more on feel than sight to guide him, because the seal lamps make an igloo's interior too smoky to see clearly. The temperature in the igloo...
...purchasing power of the ruble varies for different commodities and since education and medical care are virtually free, the figures tell only part of the story.) The Red executive earns his ulcer by worry over matters strangely similar to those that furrow the balding brow of the U.S. junior tycoon. One significant difference: not the stockholders' meeting but the Communist Party plant meetings must be kept happy...
...afternoon before; NBC kept it in the can overnight, sobs and all, then put it on the air. It was quite a show, but NBC was missing a bet by not rerunning some of the old films of Van Doren in the Twenty One isolation booth, mopping his brow and muttering, "Let's skip that part of the question till later, please," and pretending to struggle for an answer that he had been handed, complete with acting script, a few hours before. Old Twenty One fans particularly remember one script, asking for the name of the character in Verdi...
...network modeled roughly on the British Broadcasting Corp. Both the noncommercial BBC and the British commercial ITV probably give a better balance of educational and entertainment programs than do U.S. networks. But as soon as Britain's commercial channel went into business three years ago, its lower-brow fare began to take the bulk of Britain's "telly" viewers away from BBC. To meet the competition, BBC itself has lately turned to less cerebral programing, including plenty of U.S. westerns. The fact remains that ITV furnishes a striking example that a TV network can be run for profit...
Edison became the world symbol of Yankee ingenuity and looked and acted the part. Moonfaced, with a lock of hair flopping across his brow and a plug of chewing tobacco in his cheek (instead of a spittoon, he would spit on the floor "because you can't miss it"), Edison had acid-stained hands, an explosive vocabulary and a pioneer's instinct for practical jokes. He spouted the slogans of agrarian radicals, railed at U.S. colleges for stuffing students with "Latin, Philosophy and all that ninny stuff," and fiercely defended his agnostic opinions...