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...befits a book as thoughtful as this one, Morrison's writing is clear, careful, and full of meaning. The author presents the endless minor exasperations of modern life, the galling though unimportant personal frictions, with a truthfulness that is often painful--the more painful because of the understanding which lies beneath it. There is a sedateness and moderation to the prose which occasionally holds it below the level of excitement appropriate to the situations, but Morrison is a nice craftsman, and this failing is rare...
...Economics Department we are trying to make more of our senior staff's time available to undergraduates. For example, this year (1957-58) we are recommending five new half courses for undergraduates, inclusive of a course on population, speculation and investment (the last has often been asked for by undergraduates), social security, national income, managerial decisions. Senior professors are going to give the majority of these courses, and they are not likely to be large courses. We have also released Professor Galbraith from a large part of his graduate instruction so that he could give an undergraduate course in General...
...economists and New Dealers (some of whom have served as advisers to President Roosevelt and Truman) who appear to be unable or disinclined to detach themself as scholars from the controversial political and social issues which involved those two politicians. Consequently, most lectures and some sections in the course often degenerate into a simple apologia for the New Deal...
...classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying neighbors, bosses chasing their secretaries, and the like...
POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN will probably be junked by Congress this session after five years of talking about it. Deposits have slipped 45% over past decade to $1.7 billion, and Postmaster General Summerfield says 47-year-old plan, started when banks were not available in many places (and often not trusted), has outlived usefulness. Some opposition to Summerfield's idea is coming from postal employees' groups and A.F.L.-C.I.O...