Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational values were partially forgotten. While direct protest did not cause the board's action publishers learned that bowdlerized editions still hurt too many feelings. The crux of the matter is that, while education should try to give some emotional security, its primary object is development of the free mind. Since Huckleberry Finn serves that object well, ignorance is a high price for protecting feelings which, if aided by mature understanding, would not be hurt anyway...
...York born Ralph Rosenborg, whose oils and watercolors accompany Kollwitz's graphic work at the Gropper, pursues art with precisely this aesthetic criterion in mind. A newcomer to the Cambridge scene, Rosenborg's work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...
From this rank he rose steadily, becoming chief of the force in 1951. In his years in the department, Ready has had numerous experiences both interesting and exciting, but after 41 years he can't single out any one particular incident that sticks in his mind. "All those years just seem to run together," he explains, "and it's pretty hard to remember one thing from the other...
Perhaps this was all Khrushchev (or Tito) had in mind at this point, knowing the offer would be rejected. But more intriguing was what the proposal indicated about the Tito-Khrushchev relationship. Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance...
...Aurora, Ill. Sealmasters (ball bearings), the Raybestos (brake lining) Cardinals of Stratford, Conn., and the town-sponsored Clearwater Bombers, the defending champions. The reason for the choice was simple enough: each of the teams had a crack pitcher. Softball is a sport in which any manager in his right mind would trade four heavy-hitting sluggers for one big-time pitcher...