Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grim Warning. In a personal prognosis ending the 16-minute appearance, Ike remarked, "As you know, I was ill last fall. I can only say this; now the only way I know is because the doctors keep reminding me of it." Having countered another Democratic dig, chipper Candidate Eisenhower acknowledged an ovation of handclaps, shouts and ear-tingling whistles and strode...
...Ill-taught Teachers. As Potential reckons the potential, if U.S. Negroes were lifted to the educational level of whites outside the South, there would annually be 143.5% more Negro high-school graduates, 147% more college graduates. Such figures, however, reflect only the lesser quantity, not the lower quality, of current Negro education. Potential's authors report: "On the average [the South's] Negro teachers are much less able than white teachers [despite] the same amount of formal preparation." The vicious cycle: "Like other young Negroes, those preparing to teach are usually handicapped by poor schools and deprived backgrounds...
...like pressagents. Where, all too often in years gone by, the jejune was bustin' out all over, this season had a great deal of flavor, and a fair amount of body as well. Even so late as April, when playwriting usually sports its lightest-weight and most ill-fitting clothes, plays still looked neat or showed substance...
These valid criticisms, however, have been lumped together with some of the most ill-considered inanities ever to be proposed in this community. Professors have very rarely labeled students as immature, except, perhaps, in the case of i.e. Clubs are not a "negative force in the college, deadening controversies which should be spontaneous, institutionalizing social conflicts, sapping intellectual morale ... in the undergraduate group as a whole." This is so untrue as to smack of totalitarian scapegoatism. Unless the editors of i.e. spend a great deal of time with "clubbies," it is difficult to see how the clubs can affect their...
Died. Mary Herndon Ralston, 99, last survivor of nine children born to William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's longtime (21 years) law partner and biographer (Life of Lincoln); in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Herndon knew was an odd, thoughtful man ("the loveliest since Christ"), whose wife's temper was a town scandal and who brought his children to the law office where they "bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, threw the pencils into the spittoon...