Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board banned Magruder's standard textbook, American Government, because two members objected to the paragraph beginning: "The United States is called a capitalistic country, but it does not have pure capitalism. It has capitalism subject to increasing government control as our manner of living becomes more complex . . ." In 1953 it fired Deputy Superintendent George Ebey, not because it could find any proof that he had once been proCommunist, as one citizen charged, but because he had become "controversial." In the course of an investigation as a result of the Ebey case, the National Education Association reported that hundreds...
...which in fact is carved out of the Broadway play that Willingham carved out of his novel in 1953. The film begins at the climax of the play with a magnificent instance of what writers call a "blind lead." The moviegoer is asked to swallow a veritable camel of complex motive and movement, and to swallow it in the dark. For half an hour, while a massive and subtle scheme of revenge takes form before his eyes, the moviegoer has almost no idea what is really going on. But the suspense of wondering and the fun of guessing...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
Hyman Marcus is a fast-talking former math teacher and Phi Beta Kappa man (Columbia) who in three years transformed a shaky manufacturer of laundry machines into a corporate complex grossing more than $90 million. In late 1953 he bought his way into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after...
...investment purposes. But later some of them had a change of heart when Marcus ran into personality conflicts with subsidiary executives (most of whom were kept on after the Hoffman take-over). Furthermore, Marcus was so busy buying new companies that he had little time to run his corporate complex. In January Samuel Schulman, president of George McKibbin & Son, book manufacturers bought out by Marcus last year, and his associates started selling 144,000 shares of Hoffman stock with SEC approval...