Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...
...ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
SHIP-CONSTRUCTION BONDS guaranteed by U.S. will be marketed by American President Lines to aid in building two 13,250 D.W.T. cargo ships. First of its type, the $14.4 million offering is expected to lead way for $1 billion in new maritime bonds...
...number of undergraduates at the College, the lecture and course system will remain the basis of the curriculum. Lectures have some great advantages; the principal one is that they present the "great men" of the faculty to a large number of undergraduates. A diet of lectures alone, however, can lead to intellectual sluggishness. Freshmen have had General Education A to give them the experience of a discussion course, but the majority of Gen. Ed. A classes (the honors sections are notable exceptions) can prove puerile and stultifying...
This is not to say that each seminar should be a little gen. ed. course, but it does mean that initial over-specialization may lead freshmen to ignore the momentous questions latent in any study. A seminar in history, for example, offers a wonderful opportunity to work by case study to the problems of moral judgment, freedom and determinism, while a seminar in sun spots, say, might be valuable not only for its intrinsic material but as an introduction to scientific method and philosophy. It is to be hoped that the scholars who conduct specialized seminars will remember that...