Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
...rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that." The 250,000 unemployed families live like the Weimanns; another 250,000 get by perilously on small insurance pensions...
...artists sculptured likenesses of Haitian beauties, chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...
Schoolmen themselves, says the FORUM. should study new methods of building, heating, lighting and ventilating. Instead of monumental, blocklike buildings, the modern school should be small and informal, neither too forbidding for its pupils to go to, nor too cumbersome for its principal to run. Its rooms should be cheery and colorful as any parlor, as sunny as any porch. All this can be accomplished, says the FORUM, if school boards follow the rules of common sense. Rule No. 1: hire a good architect...