Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tale with Tears. Mounting the podium with extreme solemnity, Khrushchev spoke for three hours with great care and feeling-and sometimes in tears. His first words were to praise Stalin: in the early days, said Khrushchev, Stalin was a devoted and truly great servant of the party, and in the decade after Lenin's death (1924) his leadership was indispensable. But in the last 19 years of his life Stalin had done enormous harm to the party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet people...
While the text follows reasonably closely to Sorokin's basic theses, less care has been taken with the pictures. These range from a traditional pose of young love in a country lane, to a more unorthodox one of a G.I. with one arm around his buddy and the other arm around his bottle...
...number of students immediately affected by such a change would, no doubt, be small. Nevertheless, it is the colleges which ultimately must set the standards for lower education. If high schools are led to believe that the colleges will take care of language instruction, that is exactly what they will have to do. The impetus to raise standards must come from...
...every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton's 17%) and nylon leads in dress-length slips (45% v. 39%), but in the majority of categories the vote is for cotton. Cotton, said the girls, is not only easy to wash, iron and care for, but is "suitable for a teen-age girl's type or personality...
...characters are much less realistic and hence less intrinsically amusing than their counterparts in the earlier movie. James Robertson Justice, who practically carried Doctor in the House as a gruff but good-hearted surgeon, now becomes an apopleptic ship-captain, and loses some of his charm. Similarly, devil-may-care medical school comrades are supplanted by an equally devil-may-care but less interesting ship's crew. They provide a slightly flimsy background for the doctor, Dirk Bogarde, who is essentially an innocuous straightman, requiring the accompaniment of characters more fully developed in their wiliness...