Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in sociology are deeply concerned with the importance of raising the field to a level of esteem enjoyed by the older sciences. It was therefore discouraging to read Sorokin's views on morality in the U.S., implicitly presented as those of a noted sociologist...
...capital. But he would broaden the Federal Government's role as an insurer of housing loans, where it stands behind the industry and the owner. To preserve existing houses, he would have the Government liberalize the terms on which it will insure loans for purchase and repair of older houses. Where local communities are doing their share, he would increase the Federal Government's grants and loans for slum clearance and rehabilitation...
Over the years, only a fraction of the older ones have been able to find work in their own fields. Today, 111 U.S. colleges and universities have Chinese teachers, and the Army Language School at Monterey, Calif, employs 76. The engineers and doctors usually get jobs, and so do most of the scientists. But the lawyers, diplomats, economists, executives and government officials are in fields that the institute calls "un-eatables." Too old to start all over again, most eke out a living at menial jobs...
...When you get older," says George Balanchine, who is 50 this week, "you eliminate things. You want to see things pure and clear." New York's ballet company is remarkable in still another way: it is not simply a showcase for a few rare stars, such as the Danilovas, Markovas and Fonteyns of other troupes. The company offers a fresh tradition almost equally adaptable to any of its leading dancers, and its proudest possession is a chorus that can dance rings around any other. When New York City Ballet Company dancers become "ballerina-minded," wrap the public...
...picture. Written and directed, like Ingrid's last picture, Stromboli, by husband Rossellini, it is a murky turkey that gabbles about Christianity and Communism. "The fault," wrote New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther, "is quite plainly not Miss Bergman's ... It is notable that [she] has grown older gracefully, with more strength and beauty in her eternally interesting face...