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...Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...press conference, Hope said that both labor and management are to blame for their wrangles, added that right now the nation's labor laws "are in pretty good shape." Said Hope: "The quicker we convince the public we are not a reactionary organization, the better it will be for N.A.M...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tough Talk at N.A.M. | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Modern Language Teaching: Stagnation Since the War | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...forces of our Western allies at Berlin as defenders of freedom, and that it is of the greatest importance that they should remain there." But at an Indonesian embassy reception Smirnov told reporters: "We will give Berlin back to the Germans. I hope it will go quickly, the quicker the better. Everything will be settled by Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Time for Strong Nerves | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Recovery would have been much quicker," according to Harris, "and we would have saved billions of dollars each month had we attained the 1957 level of output by the third quarter of 1958 instead of, as now seems likely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Professors Hit Optimistic Views About Recession | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

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