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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the most rabid mass educator, the sight of five hundred heads bent low over an equal number of little blue books must seem a mildly appalling, impersonal way of testing knowledge. While the mass examination is thus an admitted evil, even its loudest enemies will admit that it is a necessary evil for a large University. But if the University cannot rid itself of the exam system, it should, without sacrificing the content of the tests, try to make the ordeal as easy as possible...
...have been forced to deploy 5,500 British infantrymen (many of them from the Suez Canal Zone) and 4,000 African Riflemen, at a cost of $700,000 a month. Thousands of Kikuyu are in jail, tens of thousands in hiding, yet Mau Mau gangs terrorize the countryside within sight of Nairobi...
...Confucius Less than three months after" shamelessly promising a vast industrial expansion in 1953, the Chinese Communists were finding that old Confucius was right after all. The Peking People's Daily accused everybody in sight of a "deviation of adventuristic progress," i.e., of rushing into projects without proper planning...
What the premiere audience saw first was Dancer Francisco Moncion resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...Henry VIII, Charles Laughton is again cast in the part that won him a 1933 Academy Award in The Private Life of Henry VIII. He seems to have a fine time as he struts around belching, disposing of five wives, and chewing up all the food - and scenery -in sight...