Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Classical studies have long been pictured as a narrow field dominated by bearded Germans who write learned and dry monographs. Although graduate studies in the field deal with minutiae more intensely than is to some people's taste, there is no reason for the classics to be so solely the possession of specialists. Other courses are not ashamed to assign Tolstoy and Dostoievsky in translation...
Farnsworth conceives of an academic mental-health plan which can deal with severe ilnesses, but concerns itself more with "the normal student, working against unnecessary handicaps." He suggests that students "alternate activity and rest, without undue concentration on any one aspect of college life...
Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
...Grace also had his troubles, with labor and stockholders. They complained when in depressed 1930 Grace got a bonus of $1,623,000 for 1929. In the mid '30s Grace, with U.S. Steel, led the industry's opposition to the unionization of workers and to the New Deal. He waged a loud battle against Social Security and the closed shop...
...Created Woman (Kingsley International) opens with a shot that promises a good deal more than the picture delivers. There lies Brigitte, stretched from end to end of the CinemaScope screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor's eyeball. In the hard sun of the Riviera her round little rear glows like a peach, and the camera lingers on the subject as if waiting for it to ripen. Pretty soon an aging lecher (Curt Jurgens) appears, and the two converse with only a sheet between them...