Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to seduce the princess with the help of the demon and against the concentrated efforts of the angel. This plot is not bad. But there is a serious dearth of supporting dialogue. The Frenchman is always talking about love, the Russian continually tells the others they lack the proper dialectic approach to life, the Englishman murmurs about duty and his hunting dogs, while the American is largely concerned whether or not his psychiatrist would approve of his actions. Miss McGrath always seems to be waving a pair of wings the propman evidently forgot to paaic...
...latest issue of the Lampoon--the Christmas issue, I suppose--resembles a rather thin, but well-cared-for child. For once there is nothing really bad in it, and there are several instances of genuine humor. It is a correctly-balanced issue, with the proper proportions of verse, story, and cartoon. Although the contributors to this Lampoon do not always succeed in being funny, they at least appear to have tried...
...years. Writes the judge: "I can hardly believe that TIME is about to hit the 30-year milepost. Time flies because TIME is so companionable and so frequently engrossing. World events whirl so fast that the human eye would not be able to see them in their proper perspective or the human mind to analyze them accurately were it not that TIME, with its world-covering service, brings them to one's home weekly in such enjoyable and understandable form...
...last war affected the dating pattern of our culture.' " This type of unbridled experiment ought not to be allowed in U.S. schools, said Bestor. As educators, "we are under the most solemn obligation to proceed with care . . . The caution and circumspection characteristic of medical research is the only proper model, for we are dealing with something as precious as human life itself. Vague hypotheses, truncated experiments, rash conclusions and loose generalizations are utterly out of place...
...Siberia, Mark sees innocent peasants and dissident Communists forced to labor like slaves. Because of an order from Stalin, he must lead a winter march down the Amur River to set up the industrial city of Komsomolsk. Without proper food or clothing, the march of the Young Communists turns into a pointless sacrifice; Soloviev's description of how they follow the Amur, dig holes in the ground for shelter, and perish from cold and hunger, is a masterpiece of reporting...