Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long 'free enterprise' seemed to mean only that the British employer was free from responsibility for his employees' welfare. Now the state comes to these undernourished men & women, provides their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...
...G.P.s wanted it understood that a general practitioner does not necessarily mean a country doctor. The convention issue of General Practice News criticized the A.M.A.'s annual award for the outstanding general practitioner of the year. There have been two winners thus far, and both practiced in rural areas. Why not drop the award, the G.P. News suggested, or frankly give it to an outstanding "rural practitioner...
...spry man with a Germanic love of theory, Marcks makes no bones about what he thinks art should be. "It must be stimulating," he says. "I reject any art that simply amuses. Stimulation, as I interpret it, means leading men to the eternal laws, away from what is common, usual and mean...
What did "declassed" mean? Answered Stravinsky: "To put somebody in a lower hierarchy." Said he: "When somebody feels himself a serious composer of classical music and suddenly is publicized as a jukebox composer-you know that hurt me." Furthermore, his use of the term "morally low" had nothing to do with personal morality; it just described how he felt when he found his music on the same shelf as that of the Cole Porters and Irving Berlins, fine fellows though they might...
...hundreds of companies that make a living out of novelty hats, the fashion whims of the U.S. moppet mean the difference between feast & famine. Success in this fast-moving, heads-up business is often a fluke. But last week Ben Molin and Joe Rosenbaum, owners of Brooklyn's Benay-Albee Novelty Co., thought they had it down to a pseudoscience, something like phrenology...