Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music reviewer discussing a new ballet must limit his comments mainly to its musical aspect. The subject of "Night Journey" is the Jocasta of the Oedipus legend foreseeing her destiny. It is a theme of dark and unrelieved tragedy, and its prevalent emotional atmosphere is reproduced with general conviction on Mr. Schuman's score. The score is expertly wrought in the treatment of its musical ideas, and in the atmospheric contribution of its scoring and instrumental hues. It gives a sense of portentousness, while it seemed at times rather less revealing of the full scope of the emotions...
About the only serious argument used against mixed classes is that they limit discussion by introducing an inhibiting sex consciousness. But for a generation which likes to consider itself as one that treats facts as facts, this is hardly an obstacle, especially when most marginal discussion consists of shady anecdotes, which are not essential to the course. Besides it's difficult to see how sex could be introduced into...
...unspectacular but steady growth of Argentine exports to the U.S. But as long as the U.S. maintained its foot-&-mouth disease ban on cattle and the Mediterranean fly ban on fruit, and as long as the U.S. kept growing the same farm products as Argentina, there would be a limit to the boom...
...union. But doctors are often appointed by favoritism (with the union conniving) and patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...
...which is extracted from opium. Three U.S. drug manufacturers have already applied for permission to produce it, and others are interested. Although distribution can be controlled under present drug laws, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger thinks that, before its manufacture is approved, a new law is needed to limit its production; he doesn't like to think of amidone's becoming as common as aspirin...