Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because I couldn't quite figure out the point of the other two. "Perchance To Dream" is chiefly a dialogue piece, in spirit a combination of Noel Coward, James Thurber, and Evclyn Waugh. Here again a good editor would have made a big difference. The dialogue in places is poor, and no good editor would let Mr. Rinchart write instead of a simple "he said," such things as he started, he snarled, she snapped, she giggled, said the man evenly, and said the woman triumphantly. Ring Lardner once wrote a satirical story in which every character always said things with...
From Eliot House, however, there came a pat on the back for the adamant reaction to the "Boston socialite." "Good for you, boys," said an undergraduate. "The old girl underestimates her darling daughters. The poor girls probably have to smoke their cigarettes in a locked bathroom. I've been out with the type...
Human beings, however, are not fruit flies. Human increase, either among families or among nations, has no simple connection with the available food. High-income families, which get all the food they want, usually have fewer children than the poorest of the poor. The same is often (though not always) true of nations. Sweden, probably the best-fed nation in the world, has one of the lowest birth rates, only 15 per 1,000. Argentina, a notably well-fed nation, has a lower birth rate (21 per 1,000) than hungry Chile next door...
...beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next to Ana Pauker she was probably the leading woman Communist in Europe. By last...
...more than doubled its TV network sponsors. ¶ Sports have dropped, in the last year, from 53% to only 27% of the schedule on three of New York's major stations. Big-league baseball, once thought to be TV's top draw, now rates a poor second to variety shows competing at the same hour. ¶ Films are being used more & more, but lookers seem to like them less & less. Films now rank after variety, sport and audience-participation shows. But movies may eventually prove a hit if they are made especially...