Word: happen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
However, if you happen to be out to fill your weekly culture quota or pick up some ideas for your Hum 4 exam, this is definitely not the flick...
When ten-and twelve-year-old boys see adults repairing pistols in open-air markets, hour after hour of gunplay on TV and in the movies, how can people such as those in Woodward, Okla. be "astonished" and ask each other "how such a thing could happen" when the boys steal guns and shoot people...
Understudy for Crusaders. No one at the P-D is certain what will happen when Fitz comes back. His contract runs until the end of the year, but at 67, he admits he is wearying of the daily grind. All questions about the future are referred by Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 44, to Editorial Page Editor Robert Lasch, 51, who took over in October of last year, has given deft direction to the crusades of the idealistic, New Deal-leaning PD. "Maybe Mauldin will be taken on as a kind of understudy to Fitz," says Lasch. "But maybe...
...admits, were the Tennesseans who passed the law that still makes illegal the teaching of evolution in the state. If Americans are unable to swallow the idea of a single national curriculum-and most Americans cannot-there are two alternatives: trust the professional educators, many of whom happen now to be life adjusters; or follow Keats's uneasy conclusion: There is nothing to do except "be careful not to move to Tennessee, and try not to make too many mistakes ourselves...