Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majored in English literature at Harvard, paid his way through as a ragtime pianist at the Copley Plaza (now the oft-mentioned Sheraton Plaza) and Brae Burn Country Club, graduated in 1929 and landed a job with a Boston broker at $20 a week just before the great crash. After the crash, came the 1933 Federal Securities Act, which was "written by lawyers for lawyers, and I didn't even know what a lot of the words meant." Fox therefore enrolled in Harvard Law School, skipped most classes but made a deal with some "greasy grinds" to rent their...
...carried onstage by an assortment of blue-smocked prop men), Mrs. Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into the ark caroling "Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie eleison," and the orchestra launched with a crash into cymbal-punctuated storm music that reached its climax in a beautifully descanted chorus of Eternal Father. As the storm subsided, the cast climbed back to the stage singing a four-part Britten Alleluia, filed out singing Thomas Tallis' The Spacious Firmament on High...
...corner called Tertre Rouge, French Driver Jean Mary (real name: Jean Brousselet) drove head on into a steep embankment. His Jaguar bounced back into the path of an onrushing Ferrari. Somehow the Ferrari driver, Los Angeles' Bruce Kessler, dived from his seat just before the explosive crash, and escaped death. But Jean Mary died in the wreck...
Immediate reaction to the surprise Soviet advance was a typically American one--to spend more money. Enthusiasm for educational subsidies, however, gauged by Congressional action, is flagging. Moreover, a "crash program" in science or mathematics is not the answer. Dr. Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, asserts that "scientists cannot be made overnight with any amount of money. They must be produced by the American school system...
With the spectre of Sputnik darkening their countenances, Congressmen and grim pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...