Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three important factors in American education which must not be neglected, Conant said, include: a general education for all, vocational courses for those who do not wish to enter college, and a strong academic program to take care of the needs of qualified students...
...scholarly investigators, we must posit a few questions. In California, the phone booth had been tipped over to a horizontal position. Was it still, then, really a phone booth? In Oklahoma, the phone itself had been removed. Thus we must ask: is a phone booth without a phone a true phone booth? (This recalls the famous query: does the sound of a waterfall exist if no one is there to hear it?) Then there is the matter of the booth's dimensions, variously reported as 3 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet and as 32 inches by 32 inches...
...pounds, we arrive at the figure 1.16 as the specific gravity of the students (not to be confused with the density of the students or their specific levity). Recalling, however, that the human body floats in water and therefore has a specific gravity of less than 1.0, we must conclude that it is impossible for 33 students to inhabit one phone booth. Q.E.D...
Kronenberger, drama critic for Time magazine, also said that theatre here further suffers from having no sense of an established house, such as in the other arts. This lack, too, hinders playwrights, whose work must now be subjected to the whimsies of producers, directors, and other theatre overlords...
...long as he could. Djilas refused to believe that Communism must destroy basic human liberties; yet the insight proved inevitable. It came with the New Year of 1954. Under attack from party logicians. Djilas wrote in the title essay of this volume a savage modern morality story. Based on a real incident, the stinging fable tells of a blithe young actress who marries an aging, swashbuckling wartime hero, then finds herself brutally snubbed by the petted women of Yugoslavia's bureaucratic clique. In violently purple prose, Djilas lashes at this "sham aristocracy" which, "when not loafing about in their...