Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small Circarama theater in the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, a white-haired man sat expressionless, arms folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President...
Oklahoma! and Carousel (at the Mayflower). A double-bill of two Rodgers & Hammerstein masterpieces, the first excellent and the second fair in its translation to the screen...
...explanation to the student: "Herman Melville, the author, a man of wide learning and sea experience, included in the volume much philosophy, literature, nautical, scientific and other material that few readers can hope to understand well. His vocabulary, in many places, is beyond secondary school experience ..." The adapter continues fair-mindedly: "Neither you nor Melville is to blame for this." In a separate aside to the teacher, the editor advises that "in the original, Moby Dick is shrouded in symbolism and mysticism; [it] became an outlet for the author, who poured into it vituperative venom conditioned by his personal life...
Despite all talk about price as the great determinant, low cost is the major factor for barely 16% of all shoppers; studies also show that another 16% shop only for heavily advertised brands. In between ranges the vast middle ground of shoppers, fair game for the motivational researchers, who take dead aim with all the analytical gimmicks under the supermarket sun. They claim, for instance, that the undecided mass of supermarket shoppers -they call them "emotionally insecure"-really do not know what they want when they enter a store and often are not sure what they have bought right...
...year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially as a counterirritant to Silberstein, who tried unsuccessfully to win control of Fair banks, Morse. After Silberstein and Fair banks, Morse made their peace, Lawyer Landa rounded up Penn-Texas' dissident stockholders and continued the fight. Now he faces another fight of his own against a second group of stockholders, who want to elect their own management...