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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guidance people will guide our kids back to the academics, and if the counselors will counsel the administrators to put most of the nonacademic pabulum back in the extracurricular cupboard, the pursuit of happiness will take care of itself. Bruises to the ego by way of low marks, poor report cards, etc., prepare our youngsters for real-life bumps and bruises, but a "demanned" man at 30 is a tragic thing to behold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President. "I'm not disappointed," he says. "I am the son of a small, poor state. I was always in the opposition. Yet I was elected Vice President and reached the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Good ex-President | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice echoes with accurate Lower East Side accents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Still Running | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Segregationists usually blame "Northern interference or the N.A.A.C.P.," but the radio-television industry carries far more responsibility. "Television spreads more rapidly among the poor than among the rich. And the classes with TV sets are getting TV's message: you should have a new car; you should be a good American and watch the Republican Convention; you should use a certain hair tonic. So the Negro in the deep South says, 'O.K., I've bought the hair tonic. Now where do I go to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Revolution from the Tube? | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Predictive tables for adult offenders also suggest that inferior intelligence, poor work habits, and small families are also likely to be characteristic of consistent trouble-makers in prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Criminologists Publish Tables to Predict Future Offenders | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

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