Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edict blew up a storm all over Canada. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "The idea that 'fat teachers aren't good teachers' is absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist." Mounting a crusade for Jim Babinetz, the Telegram interviewed Teacher Hilliard Anderson of Humber-crest public school, who happens to weigh 325 Ibs. Said he: "My size commands authority." The rival Toronto Star took a different tack. Since Jim is now eager to shed 60-80 Ibs., the Star hired...
...mark of an educated woman is her use of leisure. Reading a book of the month or seeing the latest play aren't enough. Educated women must have definite views and standards. They must know the good from the bad, and be able to say why. A woman must not only know facts-she must have ideas about them. There is a definite need for intellectuals in this country today. The modern world needs more people-including girls-who think for themselves." All down the line, urged Sister Margaret, education for U.S. women should be stiffened. More women should...
...relatively colorless New York papers may be forced to join in the parade. All, that is, but one. "We pride ourselves on the appearance of our paper, and we don't want to detract from it," says a spokesman for the paper that will presumably remain the good, grey New York Times...
...strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points, 441.8 yds. per game) and defense (100 yds. allowed per game...
Hephzibah is still not tempted, she insists, to seek a concert career, but she enormously enjoys playing with Yehudi: "If we're in a good mood we tell each other the music as though we'd never heard it before. It's like when spring comes. It's always the most beautiful spring you've ever seen...