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...crisp New England accents or Midwestern twangs. Then one boy spelled ardent with an a, and a 14-year-old girl had the same trouble with lavender, ending with ar. Another victim spelled conscientious with a c instead of t. Clyde W. Dawson, 13, of New Mexico, tacked an se to the end of incandescence, and in a real gone voice groaned: "Oh-oh, I goofed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O as in Condominium | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Instead of "inveighing" against "business domination per se," Schlesinger maintains, today's liberals should point out that "government by a single interest is bad." The Eisenhower government, he claims, chose the "welfare of the few" over "the general welfare" in 1955 by giving tax reductions to the higher income groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger Favors 'Qualitative' Liberalism Suited to Prosperity | 5/3/1956 | See Source »

Like 250,000 other Venezuelans, Señorita Mercedes Urbina and her cousin, Sefiorita Elena Josefina Gonzalez Urbina, enjoy taking a modest flyer on the Five-and-Six, he country's fabulous Sunday horse-race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Lucky Misses | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Russians have abandoned complete freedom in favor of a "unifying philosophy" which all must accept. This proves, by implication, that freedom is a good thing, since Russian education is a bad thing. But Dr. Conant never discusses the possibility that the fault is not in the unifying philosophy per se, but rather in the universal acceptance of a philosophy incapable of encompassing experience, dialectical materialism. The premise is apparently that no philosophy can unify, a premise certainly needing defense...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Citadel of Learning | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

...agrees to let Van stick around in disguise until the river subsides. But now the emotional tides begin rising. Cotten's wife (Ruth Roman), who has been moping because she can't have a baby, and therefore-by Hollywood logic-is losing her husband to the light señoritas across the border, begins to get curious about Van. So do the fast-living neighbors. All this prying, and Cotten's refusal to send money to Van's family, make Van unreasonable. He knocks out his brother, insults his neighbors, and goes on a prolonged bender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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