Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missiles & Planes. Defense expenditures of $39.8 billion account for a whacking 54% of the budget. Atop that, the budget includes a $500 million defense contingency fund, to be spent as the President sees fit, so the real defense total is $40.3 billion, up $2.7 billion from the pre-Sputnik level. Missile procurement is listed for $600 million more, but aircraft procurement for $600 million less. Also up: nuclear submarines, research and development, construction of Strategic Air Command bases...
Peyton Place was filmed in a Maine town, surrounded by stretches of seacoast and forest and country roads. The streets are lined with little white houses, and the shack by the railroad tracks is rather picturesque. To fit these settings, Hollywood has turned Mrs. Metalious' honestly dirty best-seller into a tepid idyll...
...letters you published from bigoted, ignorant people, who say why they would not vote for Senator Kennedy for President, are a disgrace. They help to show why a good many people are not fit to vote...
With its abundant symbolism, the story operates on two levels, plot and metaphor, and needs a more carefully worked out and comprehensive dominant metaphor into which the particulars can fit. Kozol seems to have tried using the seasons this way but never fully develops them. A consequent lack of tonal unity limits the story's achievements, outside of passages taken in isolation, to its shock value. But unified or not, it is almost always funny or slightly frightening...
...firm. They insist that picking out a few men to go off to school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just to get on the bandwagon. And many rightly fear that their bright young men will be lured away by corporate talent scouts lurking...