Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale Approach" is the newer and less-accepted policy science theory propounded by professors Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell of Yale. These men view law as a pragmatic tool which can be used to shape policy for the public good. They feel that the student, as a potential policy maker--lawyer, judge public administrator--should be trained to think in these terms. Lasswell and McDougal also believe that other areas of knowledge--semantics, psychology, sociology for instances--should be brought to bear...
...Honor has retired from his spot as doorman and his avocation as match-maker. He is now happily married to a former WAC, and is living on a chicken farm in New Hampshire. They say he is very happy, but occasionally he returns to the Lighthouse to say hello and to look around...
...there in the middle of almost every show was Ivor. He was not only Britain's Ziegfeld but also Britain's Valentino, and for a while her Jack Barrymore too; added to which he was one of the most successful song writers of his day, and a maker of light comedies second only to Noel Coward...
...wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington wrote "the most distinguished popular music since Johann Strauss...
...Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...