Word: hymans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's usual answer to questions solely on the American system was that it was "hard to generalize." He was emphatic, however, on the disadvantages of a suggestion by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover that the United States instigate highly-selective, European-style schools, to which only the brightest students would be admitted. Admitting that some of these schools already in existence are very successful, he nevertheless felt that it would be cheaper to repair our current system than...
...misled about him just because he doesn't shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy, Anderson ordered a selection board to promote to rear admiral one engineering captain experienced in atomic propulsion. The only man in the Navy...
...Roston, there is no Harvard for Hyman Kaplan; not until the Fuller Construction Company leaves Quincy House's transient guest suite. Kaplan's motto is, "always go high." Maybe he'd best wait for the Leverett Towers...
...must cope with Hyman Kaplan's daymares is Mr. Parkhill (Hyman renders it "Pockheel"), the earnest and durable idealist who teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes are unlikely to revive the vanishing art of dialect humor. To class repeaters, including Miss Mitnick. the blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik...
...literature and humor of immigrant life no longer seem as real or timely as they once did, but a kind of folklore remains, and in it Hyman Kaplan has an unshakable place. The secret of his greatness is the relentless sweep of his untutorable mind. A brooding Kaplan caps a lecture on etymology with the thrust, "Aren't eny voids in English fromm England?" Here is the man to bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts...