Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, almost every night is opening night. Each show is preceded by a private warmup, ranging from gnawing anxiety to panic. During the hours of preparation-which must end in laughter or failure-Paar is probably doing his hardest work. At noon on a recent, typical pre-show day, Jack was prowling his barn-red twelve-room house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. His breakfast had been spoiled by an unfriendly newspaper comment on the previous night's show; now he was worried about the coming performance...
...just a banquet; it was "one of the landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true a highly debatable line written in 1913 by Poet Charles Péguy-"The world has changed less since Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"-and discusses the nature of the change as expressed in French art. Author Shattuck has chosen four French men of the arts to exemplify...
...heavy tax cuts and a vast program of Government spending. According to C.E.D.'s graphs, neither course would necessarily have accelerated the recovery. Despite 1954's tax cut, personal income took 14 months to regain and hold lost ground. This time personal income is almost back to pre-recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment showed no improvement for eight months. Without such help this time, the strong upturn came in eight months. According to Keynesian theories of countercyclical government pump...
...plant expansion, is housing, which C.E.D.'s chartists call the economy's "ace in the hole." After dropping farther than in either of the two preceding recessions (13% v. 2½% in 1953, 3½% in 1948), the annual rate of new housing starts broke through pre-recession levels in June, and the industry is expected to pump $1 billion into the market for men and materials this year...
...addition to better training, this nation needs better methods for early identification of student talent. Walker suggested a nation-wide system of pre-college qualifying exams, one in ninth grade and a second in the twelfth. His fifth point called for a change in the attitude toward scholarship held by both students and adults. The educator closed with a plea for more funds to be channeled into education...