Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19th century U.S. railroad tycoon, a Social Registered Manhattan spinster of Nieuw Amsterdam lineage, and a young Ivy League yarn manufacturer are on display this week in Minneapolis and Manhattan-and they add up a high score for continuous good taste ranging back over 75 years. The lesson seems to be: "If you buy what you like, you are probably right...
...number of manifestations of student irrationality, but in this case leniency scarcely seems in order. To find the two students involved and to treat them in more or less the same fashion they treated their victims seems the only way to bring them to their senses. Hopefully, one lesson in good manners is all they will need...
This movie holds a lesson, however, for it demonstrates that fully rounded characterizations, equipped with all the perversities of real life, will not automatically lead to a great work of art. The hero and heroine of Roofs are not like the cardboard creatures of American comedies, or the fantastical inventions of the British. This is a testament to the laudably acute eye of director Rene Clair, but it does not make their adventures universally entertaining...
People generally mean by propaganda that which influences others but not themselves. Constant emphasis on propaganda thus carries the prideful risk of regarding other people as more gullible than oneself. This little lesson came home to roost last week. For two weeks the U.S. Government had been living uneasily with the prospect that the U.S.S.R. would announce unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests. Last week, when Russia did, even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Russia had scored "a certain propaganda victory, or at least, a success...
...other man. Pharmaceutical Tycoon Dirceu Fontoura, 46, handed Linda a second lesson in Brazilian playboy manners. After a party on Fontoura's yacht, Linda happily told newsmen Fontoura had proposed. Questioned by reporters, Fontoura gleefully chuckled: "Linda Christian? I think I met her once." He denied that she was ever on his yacht, denied proposing. "She's a funny girl. She must be playing games or making jokes." Before any more games could be played with her, Linda hopped a plane for Miami...