Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless the world-wide birth rate is sufficiently cut within 50 years, "hungry and crowded people will rise in bestial strife," Dr. John Rock '15, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology, Emeritus, predicted on Wednesday...
...speech at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, Dr. Rock emphasized as axiomatic that the birth rate must be cut immediately. The great problem, Rock said, is to find an effective, humane, and universal means of contraception...
Some Little Rock citizens could very nearly persuade themselves last week that the days of bad conscience were at an end. The city's four high schools were still shut, and their almost 3,700 students-2,974 white, 724 Negro-were still locked out. But by week's end 60% of them had either transferred to schools out of the city (650 students are estimated to have left) or made arrangements to attend some sort of makeshift class. Most of the classes still lacked teachers, equipment and classrooms, and those that had got under way seemed better...
...shone brightest last week on the porticoed facade of a hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors and 498 juniors and sophomores. Only trouble...
Cleft in the Rock. What Holly is looking for is what Streetcar's Blanche DuBois was looking for, "a cleft in the rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...