Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their side; soon they strike up friendships among the other students. But when, thanks to specialized and often individualized teaching techniques, they begin to overcome their handicap, they must be taught not to withdraw into their own society. "I keep telling them that this is a hothouse setup," says Hood, "that it isn't quite normal. Every chance I get, I take them with me to the cleaner's, the market or a restaurant. Then, with the security of the school behind them, they begin to cope with the world outside...
That the prig is incredible-is, in fact, a mere setup for the action-matters less than that everyone else is so nice. Never were people more aggressively charming, genteelly rowdy or sweetly romantic (for Late Love has more than its share of early love). Arlene Francis and Lucile Watson do what they can to enliven things; but the play is for those who take their tea very weak, and with three lumps of sugar...
...assemble from these sources innumerable single facts, and arrange them in meaningful relationships, requires several types of minds. The information-packed expert on Lower Slobbovian economic history has his place in such a setup, and so has the lawyer or the archaeologist who is trained to draw conclusions from incomplete and obscure evidence. The CIA has dozens more of both types than it has of spies, agents or cloak & dagger...
...mess they got themselves into . . . because they didn't have the wherewithal to secure the beachhead. The 27th was a floating reserve and was not even supposed to have been used . . . but they were diverted to rescue the Marines ... as usual. Unfortunately, they did not have the Marine setup of correspondents to supply the civilian correspondents with stories...
Packing his bags in Paris last week, outgoing Supreme Allied Commander Matthew Ridgway, off to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, presented his successor, General Alfred M. Gruenther, with a new command setup and a few new commanders...