Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only for grades, she is not becoming as involved in learning. "She's competing." Taylor maintains, "for Phi Beta Kappa or some other horrible thing rather than becoming a bigger and better person." Whether or not the shapely Sarah Lawrence female is bigger and better mentally than her Radcliffe sister could only be decided by judicious testing. While lack of exams lifts the pressure off a week-end at Yale or Princeton, it may result in less respect for facts on the part of Sarah Lawrence students, at least those whose tutors do not demand rigid memorization...
...purpose of Acheson's trip is to assure Latin American countries that the U.S. has not forgotten them. Latinos vividly remember the days of Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles, when contacts between the U.S. and its sister republics were closely maintained at the top level. On the strength of such relations, the U.S. drew heavily on Latin America in World War II for essential raw materials, afterwards worked with the Latino delegates in founding the U.N. and in establishing, at Rio in 1947, a regional security system that became the model for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...children need not be put in institutions, but can live at home and go to school, began for Spokane in two basement rooms at St. Joseph's Orphanage. Washington had nothing then but two state asylums for such children, and no plans for an outside program. A nun (Sister M. Virginia Claire) decided to see what the parents themselves could do. She got four couples interested, and helped them draft a plan...
...dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When...
Verena Talbo has always tyrannized her sister Dolly (finely played by Mildred Natwick). But when she tries to cheat her as well, Dolly flees-with a young boy cousin and a tart-tongued servant (well played by Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality...