Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What has since become known as the "Marshall Plan" would substitute for the piecemeal rehabilitation of Europe a gigantic international planned economy. The plan has two great advantages even from the most narrow, selfish point of view. It would bring into play in the battle for peace America's most powerful weapons--dollars and productive might; and it offers tremendous gains with negligible risk...
William Hermanns, professor of modern languages at San Jose College, California, and Donald V. McGranahan, lecturer on social psychology at Harvard, stated that the Germans were trying to play the Russians against the United States and that real progress in German reorientation would have to wait until East-West differences were resolved...
...present as the heroine an actress who finds herself becoming one with her role of "Joan," and reading into her offstage life some of Joan's ethical dilemmas. While this plot frame is not palpitatingly new, Anderson constructs within it some striking situations. We have here, then, a morality play, and just so you'll be sure to get his point, Anderson drives it home with gargantuan strokes of his ideological sledgehammer. Nothing political, of course: mainly a muddy discussion of ends, means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High...
Writer's cramp is an ailment that has puzzled doctors for more than a century, and it continues to baffle them. The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy. He may be able to play the piano or balance a teacup, but as soon as he tries to write, his fingers begin to stutter. Some doctors think that the cramp is an occupational disease brought on by too much writing. They prescribe 1) a long rest from writing, or 2) a change of occupation...
...scholarships, earned his expenses by waiting on tables, scaling fish at summer resorts, and sweeping out the local Y.M.C.A. Most of his time in the U.S., as Mbonu tells it, was spent as a sort of black Cinderella in a white man's coach. He often had to play hide-&-seek with Jim Crow, yet he went home feeling pretty optimistic about the U.S. race problem. His conclusion: "Against the declining forces of reaction and hate are overwhelming forces of progress and kindness...