Word: easygoingness
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History v. Headlines. To followers of modern precepts these were old, familiar complaints and Kenneth Oberholtzer had his defense on tap. Today's schools spend more time on the three Rs than ever before, he said, and they teach them better. "There are measuring devices called 'standardized tests...
Unfortunately, the actors keep getting into the foreground, brandishing passports from Hollywood and posturing through a sprawling script based on the bestselling drugstore novel of Borgia intrigue by Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shella-barger (see BOOKS). The very authenticity of the surroundings helps to betray the story and characters as...
For the 45,000 Red armymen in the Russian zone of occupation, the anti-Communist Viennese have only hatred and fear. For the 10,000 easygoing, sometimes ill-mannered American G.I.s, Viennese have a kind of cultural scorn-and a cultural weakness. Such Yank idioms as "50-50," "yam [i.e...
In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston...
Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va...