Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications of Part Three of the volume, in which its author reviews succinctly the plans of Britain, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, contrasting with them the patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm to New South Wales...
Officials of the M.C.C. refused to comment. But one member said: "If this is a joke, I consider it in very poor taste. It is nothing short of abominable and I refuse even to discuss...
...after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings are 100% commercial as hell. . . . Rembrandt was one of the most commercial bastards that ever lived...
...Things in Glocca Morraf, hit Manhattan before the show did. The brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...
...Snavely's second remark simply does not square with the facts. According to the available figures, about one hundred thousand qualified secondary-school graduates are barred from attending college every tear solely because they are poor. This group, almost half as large as the total college enrollment of the nation, cannot be absorbed within present scholarship funds without reducing the average grant to an inadequate pittance, and the part-time job market in the typically small college community is already oversupplied. The presence or absence of 'ambition" does not account for wastage of almost a third of the potential undergraduate...