Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Prades is too rare and delicate a blossoming to be enjoyed through the sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals...
...Serious character defects mark what used to be called the "constitutional psychopathic inferior," more recently known simply as the psychopath (and some experts want to change it again to "sociopath") Commonest feature: utter selfishness, in which the victim knows the difference between right and wrong but does not care...
Johnson's assets have been his painstaking care for details and his willingness to spend long hours gliding around the Senate, from chamber to cloakroom to corridor, bringing men of widely varying beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
...back again to make the daring announcement that Berea would take in Negroes. Even when Kentucky's Day Law of 1904 specifically forbade the practice, Berea remained faithful to its trust. It dipped into its meager savings and with $400,000 started the Lincoln Institute to take care of those whom until 1950 it could not legally accept...
...Roller Skates. As her Beekman Place decor suggests, Auntie Mame goes through phases like revolving 'doors. In 1929, when orphaned ten-year-old Pat is put in her flamboyant care, Auntie is in her Japanese phase. Child-rearing brings out her progressive education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee...