Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read it once, grunted, read it again, then again and again, finally announced: "This is very deep stuff. I'll have to have a little more time to digest it." Whereupon he disappeared into his office, taking with him four fellow Texans to aid in the digestive process. The Republicans' "deep stuff": 1) the contempt of court provisions of the bill would apply to violations of voting rights only, and not to all criminal contempt cases, as the Senate bill provided; 2) in criminal contempt cases based on denial of the right to vote, federal judges would...
...failed to meet the challenge of the 20th century. It either could not, or did not, effectively cope with the problems presented by the extension of universal public education up through the high school. By ignoring all psychological findings regarding the nature of the learner and the learning process, it cut itself off from an important and valuable source of information; and it gave insufficient attention to the problem of individual differences...
...Screening Process. Of the 3,000,000 pilgrims who visit Lourdes each year, some 30,000 are stretcher cases avowedly hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental...
Twisted Roads. While Justine is in the process of finding herself, those around her are losing their heads. Her complaisant husband goes quietly mad: her current lover, an itinerant Irish schoolmaster, betrays a tubercular girl friend and she dies; her first seducer, Capodistria, whose memory has obsessed her all along, is brutally murdered. In the end, Justine flees to a kibbutz in Palestine, where she becomes fat, competent and, presumably, content...
...named Humphrey Hogan, 'whose rise to G59 ($5.440 a year) is blocked by an outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your...