Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic atmosphere where shallow sophistication is often the social posture, and skepticism a handy critical tool, the beauty of personal warmth and kindness is frequently forgotten. But there are those who feel that a desire to hoard information like gold can never replace the certainty that learning should be sifted and tempered with humanity to breed wisdom...
...visitors Wright would boast of his 18 gold medals, declare: "They say I am the world's greatest architect. Perhaps I am. But who else is there? If architecture is what I conceive it to be, there has never been another architect...
Shouted Down. Where the U.S. consumer reigns, the gains were most striking. U.S. smokers, puffing away at a record rate, upped both sales and profits of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) and P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold), both of whose stockholders approved stock splits to make room for further growth. When a stockholder tried to ask a few critical questions of Reynolds Chairman John C. Whitaker, other stockholders were already so taken with the good news that they stamped their feet, shouted the dissenter down...
Yankee Dollars. In Maracaibo, Venezuela, Javier Gonzalez' dentist grabbed him on the street, took back the gold teeth Javier had not paid...
...that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy proves the thesis that movies are better than ever; a few scenes of undeniable hilarity (almost all of them shown in the preview last week) are surrounded by interminable stretches of "classic" but boring sequences...