Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hothead. The Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will...
...publishers' "final offer" of a $10-a-week wage boost was rejected three weeks ago by the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, which wanted a $16.50-a-week raise. The 1,500 printers were under no heavy pressure to settle; they got union benefits ranging up to $60 a week. (Some of the strikers had found work in job shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News...
...wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such education to more people, says Bell, solves nothing. The only hope for U.S. civilization as Bell sees it: "Rediscover . . . that democratic education must be not only democratic but also education...
Twice last week, wind & weather pushed the smog down so low that it cut visibility at street level. Moviemakers gave up plans for outdoor shooting and concentrated instead on interior scenes. Hundreds of citizens' eyes began to smart and water. Scientists could offer them no relief. There were scores of substances in smog: which of them caused eye irritation was still a mystery...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...