Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence's famed novel, with French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux as Lady Chat-terly, but was kept out by the New York board of regents. Condemning the entire movie as "immoral" in theme, the board said the film "glorifies adultery," presenting it as a "desirable, acceptable and proper pattern of behavior...
...convinced that physiologically a child is not just a little man," he argued. "Our children are without proper medical consideration for their special needs." Finally impressed by his argument and enthusiasm, his colleagues agreed to join with him in founding Boston's Children's Hospital...
...samples of great literature almost as soon as they could read. But by the very nature of the modern reader, top writers are often automatically ruled out. "Fine literature, even such as is consciously written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game...
...International Astronautical Congress at Rome, Dr. Siegfried J. Gerathewohl of the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine told about experiments with weightlessness made with a two-place, T-33 jet-trainer, which by flying the proper curve at high speed could keep its occupants weightless for 40 seconds at a time...
...there seems little reason to believe that the thought police have given up, for there have been few, if any, concessions from university administrations or state legislatures which had set themselves up as the proper tribunals to judge professors' thoughts. They have not voluntarily withdrawn, although in some cases the courts have curtailed their era of operation. The court-denied areas, however, constitute practically the sum total of their withdrawal...