Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation in 1960 will be different. In 1956, the Democrats were, to say the least, pessimistic about their chances in the Presidential election. But today the party is feeling confident about regaining the White House. Their sweeping victory in the off-year elections in November coupled with the fact that President Eisenhower will not be running again has given them a reason for optimism...
Fires, needless to say, were not just a source of amusement for students and a bother to Administration. Some of the blazes in the University's history have seriously damaged or threatened property and cost dearly...
...history grader commented on the problem, girls seem to have a greater "vitality" in approaching subject matter. "A girl is much more likely to come up to a grader and say, I don't like any of these suggested essay topics. But what I am interested in is....' She is much more likely to take a special interest in some one problem or element of a course, and want to follow through by herself. In contrast to this, a boy will read the list of paper topics, pick out an appropriate one, then deal with it matter-of-factly...
Wilder took much less of a commercial chance in signing up Marilyn Monroe for her first role in two years. In Some Like It Hot, she proves what the psychiatrists, the social critics and press agents have been saying throughout the lengthy hiatus: she qualifies as one of the remarkable public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch...
...apron. Whether this development shows a) a remarkable talent for double incompetency, i.e., she reads a good piece, doesn't like it but prints it anyway, or b) that good writers and poets aren't really ashamed to see themselves appear in her pages, is hard to say. One should talk sweet of the aged, and of the performance in her current issue, such talk need be neither hypocritical nor gratuitous. If a reader wishes there were a little more of her, he can comfort himself by sensing that she is, at least, there. A fellow can ask little else...