Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation and intrepid inertia.") He has failed to make an issue out of crime, juvenile delinquency, or any other of the problems that vex New Yorkers: e.g., corruption charges against two Democratic city councilmen, city-choking traffic snarls, worsening public schools and the flight of the Giants and Dodgers to California's greener (and greenbacked) pastures...
...craft ebbing. Last week The Deaf Heart performed the rare feat of tackling a psychiatric subject with freshness and a driving sense of drama that never marred its authenticity. Based on an actual case in Minneapolis, it was the story of a girl who went psychosomatically deaf in emotional flight from her role as the ears of a deaf father, mother and brother. It unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl's arrival at a hospital psychiatric ward, developing as the staff ferreted out the causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with...
...Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating while floating in his green marble bathtub, Dior thought much about good business too, opened his wholesaling Christian Dior-New York Inc. in 1948, organized a perfume company, designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California-in all, grossed some...
What About Manned Space Flight...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...