Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black's our life. If we don't get it, we're out of work...
...Industrialist Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto Chemical Co.) put it: "Education . . . has gone from training for living to training to make a living." The University of California's Professor Frederic Lilge carried the analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure and understanding is narrowed . . . Instead of being plowed deeply and continuously by the art of good talk, it is planted with the purchased flowers of jokes and stories from the Reader's Digest, with radio and video...
...real danger, the panel implied, was not so much in frankly technical schools, which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives...
...military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...
...through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest of my life...