Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conversational style to the middle-income family, which it advises how to do almost everything. Samples: "How to wash and iron curtains," "How to stop rot," and how to remove crust from a baby's head. Upper-middle-class expressions such as maid's room, library and master bedroom are taboo. (B. H. & G. says added bedroom, den and owners' bedroom.) There are no "housewives"; they are all "home-makers." B. H. & G. admits that its constant touting of homemaking techniques, products and services sometimes makes it "hard to tell the articles from...
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, K. 504 (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Conductor Ansermet, a champion of new music, proves with the great "Prague" symphony that he is also a master of the old. Recording: excellent...
Though students jammed his courses, he was not an easy master. He railed against the tardy ones, was ruthless in dealing with lazy thinkers and sloppy writers. Yet after classes, students knew they would find friendly counsel in his rooms. There hundreds have gone-from Sinclair Lewis to Yale's President Charles Seymour ("At last a president," sighed Tink when Seymour was named in 1937, "that I can call by his first name...
Finally, there is the basic philosophy of the book. While Mr. Marquand is a master at describing the outward characteristics of the people about whom he writes, he fails when he probes any deeper than their social climbing or the cut of their suits. Basically, he is saying that the man who typifies our urban eastern civilization, the rising executive who rides the commuter's locals and hopes to send his children to good prep schools, is caught in a horrible treadmill. A rut is what you make of it; even Mr. Marquand's social anthropologist--a fascinating literary device...
...many months OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) has struggled to find some basis for a "master plan" leading to economic integration of Europe. Under such a plan, imports, exports, currency exchange, allotment of manufactures, purchases of raw materials, etc.. would be geared together. But the conflict of economic philosophies and, especially, nationalism made any actual formulation of a plan seem remote. Last week, at a meeting near Paris of OEEC's eight-nation steering committee, the plan was abandoned...