Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started with Maryland's extension courses for military students in the Washington area. When many students were shipped to Germany in 1949, Maryland professors followed them, setting up six centers to serve an unexpected crush of 1,851 applicants. Enrollment grew and grew. At 204 centers in 23 countries, more than 130,000 G.I.s and dependents have now been through the Maryland mill. (Up to 75% of a G.I.'s tuition is paid by the armed forces...
...five Ws and the H-Who, What, Where, When, Why and How-make up a time-honored formula for the contents oj a good news story. In the crush oj reporting the news every hour on the hour, or every day by the day, one-and perhaps the most important one-oj the Ws is often slighted. Each week TIME gives intense attention to that...
Chess, Anyone? As for Gourgaud, he was a temperamental bachelor who seems to have had a homosexual crush on Napoleon, but Bonaparte was strictly heterosexual, and Gourgaud eventually left the island in a vicious pet. Las Cases had gone to St. Helena for the book he knew Napoleon had in him, and took dictation till his eyes gave out. Indeed, they all took dictation and kept journals, perhaps suspecting posterity's avalanche of books about Napoleon, though some of the entries are revealingly non-Napoleonic, e.g., Gourgaud's statement that if Las Cases tried...
...hungry sort of spaceman who eats away the forms he makes, leaving space supreme. "I see reality life size," he once remarked, "just as you do." But his portraits got smaller and smaller. He would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris cafes, and crush them with a squeeze. After World War II, Giacometti suddenly began producing tall, straw-thin stick men reminiscent of ancient Sardinian bronzes. His sculptures can be seen almost all the way around and dominate space instead of filling it. These new figures were universally acclaimed, but Giacometti went on destroying most...
...North Beach's Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk...