Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education of blind children alongside their sighted contemporaries in Chicago. The spread of the public-school program in this field is a source of gratification to the many people who have believed for years that blind people live in a sighted world and can best take their proper place in that world if they have not been segregated from...
...dean, "it would place an intolerable burden upon an instructor who must at semester's end read and grade from 275 to 600 examination books to require that he mark the misspellings, the solecisms, and the abuse of language, and undertake to explain to the errant the proper usage." A course in remedial writing would not be feasible either. Warren's recommendation: that the colleges give each prospective law student an examination in expository writing at the end of his junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would become a part...
...Parke-Bernet auction catalogue the bell tolled for the era: "Here was someone who believed with great sincerity that the social order was immutably secure; that the meaning of wealth . . . was that it should be translated into an environment of beauty and dignity, as its proper appanages; and that once the eye was trained to the pursuit, the appeal of great craftsmanship was irresistible, and its ownership a justification of one's position." Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., a close personal friend of Mrs. Rovensky, put it more simply: "It was one of the most beautiful houses...
...Against Oliver Smith's fine woodland set-a sort of field-and-stream of consciousness-the self-probing yielded moments both of sharp fantasy and of sharp perception. But an ultra-subjective method, which by now is a commonplace of fiction, has no proper place in drama. It is not just that drama works from the outside in, rather than vice versa, but that such mental voyaging, in the theater, is seldom sly, swift and aberrant enough to seem real, nor cumulative enough to be dramatic...
...Outer Club, which is the whole Senate). This is a group of men who "belong" in the Senate, who love it, and who, by a combination of inclination and political fortune, make their life there. These men are tolerant of one another, but aware of what they consider "proper" for a Senator. Their philosophy accounts for both the long time it took to punish Senator McCarthy, even for plain violations of our political tradition, and the way he was finally punished (for disrespect to fellow members and bringing disrepute on the Senate...