Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these Americans lived on farms in northern Denmark; others stayed in mountain villages in Austria. But there were some common features. Each Experimenter spent a month's "homestay" living as a member of a foreign family, and a second month of group travel in his Experiment country...
...told me that 'there is nothing else to do here but work,'" Lorenz said. The Experimenter concluded, however, that this unusual propensity for work is not a common characteristic of the Yugoslavs, but a trait peculiar to his host...
...Britain thinks of the United Nations as a 'talk-shop,' while the United States considers it more as an agency of definite action," said H. G. Nicholas of Oxford University last night in the Upper Common Room of Adams House in a talk on "Great Britain, the United Nations, and the Middle East...
...Club will use its newly-built Finnish sauna as a big selling point in its membership meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...molding effect of the audience/customer. The novelist writes for a small audience with whom he can assume a certain rapport. The contemporary Hollywood film is aimed at everyone--young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate, Americans and foreigners. Hence, in addition to the inevitable "lowest common denominator," is the pressure to dilute material so that it will not offend the tender-minded of any persuasion. The voluntary Production Code which is "not of this world" is the most obvious instance, contributing in part to the idealization of life which has in the past characterized American films...