Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...
That is one way to reach Marianne Moore. She lives there between Lafayette and De Kalb still, as she has for 30 years, and from those unlikely surroundings have come some of the best U.S. poetry written during that time. Reaching the heart of her poetry itself is another matter. Her poetry is practical and fresh, delicate and forthright, intensely imaginative and keenly observant. To try to reach it, the Collected Poems are the best road. Her new book, so slender that it can be read in an hour, is a simple, narrow, carefree path that proves in a whimsical...
When another hardy group of correspondents rushed to find out how U.S. Caltex employees were faring in Rumbai, a town in contested Central Sumatra, they found a scene that made a novel page in war correspondence. Reported the New York Times's Bernard Kalb: U.S. kids were playing tag on a paved street, an American woman dived into a glittering pool, and "a couple of American men, sipping ice cream sodas to the tune of jukebox music, were chatting about what kind of season the Yankees would have...
When the news broke back home, the Senators hastily placed full blame on "the practitioners of so-called progressive education." But some school officials doubted that Georgia should get off quite so easily. Reported De Kalb County Superintendent Jim Cherry: "Less than half the white children in Georgia are completing the present high school program. Less than 20% of the Negroes graduate. A great majority of high schools offer no chemistry and physics, and others offer it only in alternate years. Advanced algebra, trigonometry and solid geometry are not available in the great majority of Georgia high schools. Science...
...Reducing pills sold without prescription are not only useless and possibly dangerous but exorbitantly priced," Nutritionist S. William Kalb of Newark told a congressional committee investigating advertising for "dietless" reducing treatments. Dr. Kalb passed out samples of a brand made of skim milk and lemon juice, estimated that the manufacturers made "about a 400,000% profit" on the pills. Added Dr. Kalb relentlessly: Diet is the only way to reduce...