Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard scene, the 1910 graduate found, gives an immediate and striking impression of tenseness and worry. "Nobody ever seems to stop working. It was certainly not like that in my day," he said, suggesting that students now are representatives of a new "Worried Generation." "I don't mean to suggest," he smiled, "that there isn't plenty to worry about...
...reads his script rapidly and casually with his fingertips, ad-libs with the evening's guest. When Paul taps him three times on the shoulder, he knows he has three minutes to go ; two taps mean two minutes, one tap the windup...
...figures mean anything, organized religion in the U.S. has little to shout hallelujah about. The Twentieth Century Fund's monumental 3½-year study (America's Needs & Resources, published this week) adds a few sorry details to a sorry story that U.S. churchmen already know...
Carnegie Hall (Morros-LeBaron; United Artists) probably contains more famous music per foot of film, interpreted by more famous musicians, than any other movie ever made. The chances are that it will gross millions. This does not mean, necessarily, that music lovers will love it. Nearly every number is the most over-familiar one that could have been chosen...
Zimmerman's assertions, not calculated to cheer the life insurance societies or the honor grades man, was that tension and cagerness to get ahead mean less time to get there. Cracking one more book today is cracking the stomach lining of tomorrow, he suggests...