Word: reams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riencourt adopts these arbitrary terms to pose an equally arbitrary theorem: Greek culture was to Roman civilization what European culture is to the coming American civilization. U.S. bread and circuses -"Hollywood's sleek motion pictures, American newspapers and magazines, soft drinks, dentistry"-already dominate Europe. He cites a ream of historical parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace...
Charles Bailey himself launched the most direct assault imaginable on coronary disease-reaming out the diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker...
...being made in schools every day," he says, "making up examinations, making theses, and so on.'' He warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
DONALD C. REAM Philadelphia
Like the Crimson, Holy Cross has been handicapped severely by lack of practice because of consistent bad weather. Crusader Coach Jack Barry described this as "the worst spring I remember." His ream has nevertheless won both its games, over Brown, 10 to 6, and Boston University...