Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear in magazines ranging from the Ladies' Home Journal to TV Guide, and his features flicker on the tube from Today to Tonight, expressing, all in one, the horn-rimmed wisdom of the scholar, the sophistication of balding middle age-and the omniscient satisfaction of the eternal Quiz Kid. By this time, in short, the average American would be less than average unless he knew all about Arthur Schlesinger...
...which the movement is progressing at some of the GBHC hospitals. In particular, he feels that students are handicapped by their youth when they try to organize adults. "When you've been getting the same salary for 25 years and supporting your family at a certain standard, and some kid tells you he's going to change your life, you're inclined to be skeptical...
...Southrun" aristocracy. Before anybody can say "tea and sodomy," David himself has been accused of perversion by the effete Dean of Men, whose name, for Pete's sake, is Merriweather Goodhue. Only by the intervention of a tough but noble leader named "Bull" Evans does the poor kid clear himself. Evans simply hires a private eye to prove that Dean Goodhue and Clevenger have been in, well, cahoots...
With the aid of a former Pentagon Whiz Kid, Assistant Secretary William Gorham, 35, Gardner grafted McNamara-style systems-analysis techniques onto HEW's programs to determine which were paying off best. Gorham is engaged in providing the information that Gardner will need for decisions such as whether money is better spent on vocational education, or job retraining, or increased aid to poor schoolchildren. One startling fact uncovered by Gorham: an advertising campaign to persuade automobile drivers to use seat belts saved one life for every $88 spent; an extensive educational effort to train drivers saved one for every...
...Unlimited Nonchalance." Probably the best proof of Françoise's intelligence is that she does not kid herself about her work. Her songs invariably leave her "dissatisfied four or five months after." Of her first film, Sagan's A Castle in Sweden, she recalls how "all the critics said everybody was bad but me. I was not good, but I wasn't as bad as they expected...