Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape recorder, an empty store front, and about 20 tough local adolescents form the nucleus of a novel University experiment in human behavior. "Street Corner Research," a project headed by Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, has taken over a closed store at the corner of Bow St. and Massachusetts Ave. to study the problem of juvenile delinquency...
...greatest interest is in the absolutely unreachable kids who would never volunteer for such experiments," Dr. Slack noted. The first five adolescents whom Street Corner Research investigated had previously refused to see social workers or psychiatrists appointed by a juvenile court...
Agony & Ambition. In Wolfe at Quebec, Historian Hibbert penetrates the fog of hero worship to describe the soldier as he really was-a gangly, slack-chinned, irascible young man in constant pain from a kidney disease. Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank. He had fought well in Flanders against the French, and William Pitt the Elder recommended the stiff-necked young major general to run the siege of Quebec, France's major stronghold in America...
...capital goods and inventories in good times. "The up-and-down cycle exists simply because businessmen do not believe it exists," says a top Washington economist. "They base capital-spending decisions on a straight-line projection. Because business has been good in recent months, they figure it will never slack...
...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...