Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is more than a bare possibility that Lieut. General Khrushchev will read and see the illustrations in TIME'S cover story. May I suggest that he cut out and frame the picture of himself greeting a little child. Let us hope he will look at this picture daily and see in it what Americans would gladly see if we could divorce it from the overcast of contemporary historical shadows...
...inspiring to read [July 15] of Senator Kennedy's courageous efforts in the bloody Algerian rebellion. The present Administration has proved they have no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no voice to answer to injustice and persecution...
...School for the Blind, has begun to run his fingers across one of the few up-to-date news stories available to him (most braille transcribing lags weeks behind publication dates, and for the deaf-blind, for whom radio is useless, news almost always grows stale before it is read). Kinney, who never heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls before he read TIME'S April 15 cover story, starts the fragile sheets on a postal round robin of some 60 Hadley School correspondence students. The chain breaks only when the tiny raised dots are worn off the paper...
When the boy was ready to enter high school, his family unhesitatingly sold the homestead and moved to Saskatoon. In school John read the speeches of British parliamentary orators, developed his own florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast...
...attacks the role gamely. To prepare for it, she read everything she could find on Jeanne Eagels. "The first thing I read said she was irrational and sensitive and all the things I sort of am, and how she used to eat pickles in school like me." Kim was instantly attracted. She plastered her dressing room with pictures of the star (whom she actually resembles), rehearsed while a phonograph played mood music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even...