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...northwest area of Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters could scarcely contain themselves as the speaker from Lancaster ripped into the Minister of Education. Sir David Eccles, said the speaker, "has achieved the impossible. Alone and unaided and with consummate skill and genius, he has driven the meekest, mildest, most long-suffering body of men and women in the Western Hemisphere to revolt." The men and women in question were the schoolteachers of Britain. Their mood had never been more surly...
...Radcliffe freshman's case of poliomyelitis was called "the mildest possible" yesterday, but Annex health authorities have nevertheless given gamma globulin shots to 27 students as a precautionary measure...
Still-life painting is perhaps the mildest form of art. While expressionists leap from pique to pique, and abstractionists zero grimly in on private voids, the still-life artist tidily rules a table-top world of unmoving, everyday things. Chances are he paints in a sitting position, slowly and with quiet enjoyment, never spattering his cuffs. Like mushrooms, his work prospers in a cool, humble atmosphere and appeals chiefly to gourmets. Still lifes are bound to be overshadowed by the products of more ambitious painters. Yet they sell well. Table-top worlds make reassuring, easy-to-live-with pictures...
Even the most ardent Republican readily admits that the U.S. has been through a recession. But despite the Democrats' gloomy cries about a "secondbest year," the most remarkable fact about the dip is that it was just about the mildest recession in U.S. history. While in some places, notably in Detroit and in New England's mill towns, unemployment has been acute, in terms of the total work force it has been small. The highest jobless total was 3,700,000 v. more than 4,000,000 in 1949. Last week the Government reported the figure...
...convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would think that the American way consisted of unanimous tribal self-admiration . . . There is a present danger that critics of even the mildest sort will be frightened into silence ... I sometimes think we are approaching the point where it will be impossible for one person to be seen with another person until he first gets the other person cleared with...