Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alcoholic ward, he finds new curtains in the living room, and a well-groomed Lola eager to show that things have changed. With the option of a happy ending, the audience can contentedly leave Mr. Inge's unpleasant little story behind when the leave the theatre. But anyone who isn't determined to dismiss the disturbing will doubt that chintz and a girdle can conjure happiness out of the hopeless existence of Mr. Inge's characters...
...this mean that Chicago would backtrack on Hutchins completely? Hinted Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton: "We've tried our innovation for eleven years, hoping that many other colleges and universities would join us. They haven't. There comes a point when you decide that perhaps everybody else isn't out of step...
...alert for new fields, McGraw-Hill registered the title Atomic Power right after the first atom bomb, now publishes it as Nucleonics, which is still losing money. But the company has had to wait before for a new trade to catch up with its magazine, and Hack McGraw isn't worried. Said he: "It's another stake in the future. We think it will carry itself well when private industry really gets going in atomic energy...
...that other story, that 'Benny Cox'," Alice continued. "Just a minute," said the March Hare, "you've got to realize that that's part of a novel." "That isn't my fault," said Alice. "If they print them as excerpts they should be able to stand by themselves. If they can't stand by themselves, why bother printing them? In a chase, you've got to feel something about the person being hunted. You've got to want him to escape or be captured. In this story, though, you don't know enough to care one way or the other...
...characters might act in any given situation? Does he make them alive and clear enough so you can take them outside his plot and make them plausible and understandable?" The March Hare nodded slowly. "Well, not exactly," he said, "but he tries." "Maybe he isn't sure himself what he's trying to say," suggested Alice. "Could be," said the March Hare, "but I doubt it. He might be trying to say too much in too few words. Still, he's trying. You've got to give him credit for that." "I will," said Alice...