Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green-carpeted office in the East Block last week, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent pondered the extremes that faced him and his country. The fine legal mind, famed in Canadian courts for its ability to arrive at sense-making compromises, was at work trying to find middle way. St. Laurent was confident that it could be found. "We have been up against tough situations before," he said. "The Western World has always managed somehow...
When I have painted a fine picture, I haven't expressed a thought. Or so they say. What fools people...
What should a student get out of college? Most people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...
...Manhattan's little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...
...England and Scotland); finally, after an imposter (the stranger) tries to pass himself off as the returned prodigal, the real son returns to his parents amid great rejoicing. But in the Lemonade Opera's church-basement opera house, even John (Man in the Moon) Gutman's fine translation and adaptation failed to give the action much charm or excitement...