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Your article on Fertile Valley and the ''Spartan Wives" [TIME, April 14] really made me shudder at the intellectual laziness of American women. Is it possible they really find mental stimulation in the type of adult education outlined in your article, or are they seeking merely mental soporifics and time-killers? Might I suggest they add "Flower Arrangements" and "How to Collect Antiques" to their program...
...most industry-wide bargaining. It would deny any bargaining rights to unions having Communist officers. It would give injunctive powers to the Government in disputes involving "the public health, safety or interest." It would abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Even to think about it made labor leaders shudder. On the floor, House Republicans had the votes to pass the bill in a breeze...
Hope-and a Shudder. "On the opposite side of Rome, indeed in another country altogether, a top official of the Vatican's Secretariat of State summed up soberly: 'Russia's grand contribution to liberty with its battle against Naziism is and will forever remain admirable. Yet the fact is that this decision of America's brings the promise of liberty to millions, and liberty for all peoples there must be, whoever brings it. But the real task remains-to find exact definitions for the words "liberty, democracy, justice" . . . that are everywhere acceptable and applicable. Because...
Hughes summed it all up: "Everywhere, racing tongues and typewriters, trying to articulate racing hopes and fears, greeted the dramatic appearance of the U.S. in the center of the world arena with some hysteria, much hyperbole, great hope- and a perceptible shudder...
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...