Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the stage of elephantiasis...
...slanted by newsmen blinded by their affection for Stevenson and their misunderstanding of America. One of the first to go overboard was Manchester Guardian Correspondent Alistair Cooke, who two months ago predicted a Stevenson victory. But in an eleventh-hour conversion, Cooke took another look at Stevenson's "reach for greatness," as compared to Ike's "much more 'normal' campaign," and wrote: "It now appears most likely that the people will pass up the governor's invitation to 'greatness' and settle for [an Eisenhower] housecleaning...
...probable that everyone who sees Vittorio De Sica's will reach for some symbolic meaning, but I doubt there really is one. Miracle in Milan is a modern fairy tale, no more. The evil tycoons and down trodden mass are simplifications made for the sake of fantasy rather than ideology. Its hero, a poor, virtuous boy, could easily be Jack the Giant Killer or Aladdin with a magic lamp (though in this case it is a dove...
...proud and often pig-headed individualists. As a result, the scenery or wardrobe departments might disregard their budgets for the sake of greater art, or an optimism based on ignorance might provide the spirit for a production which they could never afford. Always they sought to expand and reach farther; always they were badly in debt...
Your editorial on Educational TV in the October 10th CRIMSON endorses state financial backing to help reach a half-million dollar goal by June, 1953 in order to erect an educational TV station in the Boston area. I would like to know what improvements educational TV will make over those services offered by the Lowell Institute's FM station. Everyone seems to think educational TV is a fine idea, but no one has yet offered what improvements will be forthcoming in program content over Hoppy and the Space Cadets...