Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will be no change in the size of the Class of 1962 over the five preceding Freshman classes, Dean Bender announced yesterday. Letters of acceptance were sent out to 1487 of this year's approximately 4200 applicants late yesterday afternoon, in anticipation of a class totalling about...
...Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed to find broad streets where they had expected to find "oppressed classes" living in shacks. The stoutly Republican New York Herald Tribune, learning that blonde Dancer Lydia Skriabina cherished but could not afford a $5 mechanical bear, sent a reporter dashing out to buy it and present...
...friendly analyst of his native Midwest, Newsman Martin has turned his fact finding into eight books, but flopped the one time he tried a novel. (The publisher sent him a one-sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...
...industry grew because we have made it our business to find out what people want," says a G.M. economist, noting that his company surveys 2,000,000 potential buyers each year. They are dissected for their likes and dislikes, like frogs in a laboratory. Thousands of lengthy questionnaires are sent out; microphones are hidden in new cars in showrooms to catch comments; salesmen carry wire recorders tucked in their pockets. In fact, automakers have studied the public so carefully that they have inspired sociologists and motivational researchers to draw weighty-and often silly-conclusions about the U.S. public by merely...
Eventually, a posse is sent to fetch her back, the shepherd absconds, and she crawls contritely back to a tender reconciliation with the baker. I suspect that, having failed in love, she took to poisoning wells...