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...entirely? A teen-ager should begin to take on some responsibility of adulthood. He or she . . . has as much time as anyone else-exactly 24 hours a day . . . My nine-year-old can already cook an egg (boiled or fried), make a piece of toast, squeeze an orange and pour a glass of milk...
...more inhibiting to the free play of ideas than to stop after each one and say: "No, that's no good." Once a person has accumulated a "pile of alternatives," he can then make a decision. Meanwhile, he must indulge in a process called "brainstorming"-letting ideas pour out, no matter how preposterous...
...Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...
Mendès' view might be put in the French saying, Reculer pour mieux sauter-take a step backward so as to jump better. He argues that by trying to be strong everywhere, France is strong nowhere, that strength cannot be achieved anywhere with an overburdened or propped-up economy. Says a British friend: "He does not argue that France should stand alone, but that France should stand erect...
...dealers must share the blame for the trouble. When the auto industry caught up with demand after World War II, neither side was prepared for the new kind of market. Dealers hated to go back to the old, hard selling practices of prewar days, and manufacturers continued to pour out cars based on their economists' estimates of the market rather than on what the market actually would take...