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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committed to keeping its pupils around, no matter how slow they may be, the makeup of the average classroom as well as the intelligence of state university applicants is entirely different from what it was. In the old days, a poor reader would simply drop out of sight. Today, in the mass, he makes headlines...
...beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them." But from his own ugliness. Toulouse-Lautrec turned away, preferring to caricature it outlandishly to make his friends laugh harder. He could not resist telling Vincent van Gogh, who struck most men on sight as physically unattractive, where to get his rotting teeth fixed. But his pastel portrait of Van Gogh shows a warmer, more searching glance. In reply, Van Gogh humbly offered his gratitude and praise...
...gleaming marble offices of the Governor General in Algiers, a French official fended off newsmen: "But there is no war in Algeria." At first sight, the evidence supported him. In Algiers' sidewalk cafes, French colons sipped their Pernods, while in the gutters, Arab urchins drowsily peddled postcards. But as night fell over the casbah, shots rang out in Algiers and in every other big city in the country. In eleven months, Algerian terrorists killed 457 Frenchmen and 505 pro-French Arabs, wounded close...
Leriche protested increduously that Napoleon was commonly thought to have died of stomach cancer. Just then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the evening's guest of honor, caught sight of the college's collection of pickled viscera and got sick to his stomach. The conversation ended abruptly...
...Bible may have had its biggest year of all time. Inspirational books kept booming, e.g., How to Live 365 Days a Year and The Answer Is God. Norman Vincent Peale's Power of Positive Thinking dominated the bestseller lists for the second year, with no end in sight...