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...Lady, Dali dived into the project with his usual manic genius. The rising curtain revealed a ghostly painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward a piano gushing milk, a blind man sitting before a television...
Last week's ceremony of the gold-headed cane harks back to 1689, when Dr. John Radcliffe, physician to the co-sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to the first of four eminent successors in the practice of royal medicine. Now a museum piece, it has a hollow head, which may have been used as a vinaigrette, holding aro matic salts to ward off infection. U.S. pathologists revived the tradition of the gold-headed cane...
...raised by training. An example is New York City's "Higher Horizons" program, which has raised low IQs among "culturally deprived" children simply by inspiring them to aim for college (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Mayer suggests that U.S. education's test craze is largely a crutch for inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High School, for example, one girl with an IQ in the "barely educable 80s" is in the top group "because she works hard and gets all A's." Mayer pointedly quotes John Stuart Mill: "A pupil from...
...player would not fall back on an overworked crutch and refused to call the spring relaxation he enjoys a "chance to study." Instead, he merely said, "I like to have my own time at my own disposal. If spring football were reinstated in the Ivy League, I would not play football at all." He called the accusations of lack of interest and laziness in football which relied on interest in spring football "high schoolish" and "immature fanaticism...
...affection, murmuring soothingly over and over that he must rest, that he must forget about politics, that he should live out his life at Hyde Park. In a tremendous confrontation, the hero slays the dragon and thenceforth is able to call his soul his own. In the final sequence, crutch-borne but triumphant, he hobbles up to the lectern where he will nominate Al Smith and resume the role that history had given him to play...