Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball game, it devotes much of its time to films. After the films are adapted technically for television, they must undergo a crucial test before the film editor. The editor spends eight hours a day scrutinizing every film the station plans to use, occasionally deleting whatever "won't go in Boston." "I bore myself silly," she says...
...What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...
Murray is suffering from a five-way squeeze play. He is under pressure from industry and from much of the public to compromise before a stoppage that may cripple the economy; but this is the least of his worries. He has to go before the national convention of the CIO in less than a month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing...
...president cannot give in on pensions: to keep his standing in union circles he will have to hold out for a plan entirely financed by industry. Should he do otherwise, Lewis and Reuther will be on his neck. If he does follow this course, industry and the public will go after him. It looks like a rough month for him either way--but the squeeze from his own people must be more compelling than the pinch from industry...
These suggestions add up to a full-time course for credit and such a course should be required for many graduate degrees, because the majority of professional people in the academic world go into teaching, not research. The present graduate curriculum creates a frame of mind often specialized and sophisticated to an ingrown stage, not oriented to teaching--which requires simplification and work with unmotivated students...