Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blow Your Nose." The new nation is further divided by the differing nationalities and social backgrounds of its citizens. Each aliyah had its own characteristics and dreams for the new state. The men of the Second Aliyah are still on top in the government, but in the army and among the people, the sabras (literally: cacti), the native-born, are coming to the fore. Palestinian climate has played a, strange trick on the sabras. They run to the big-boned, blue-eyed, blond athlete type associated with anti-Semitic persecutions...
...better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
Arts Later. Campbell insists that his students also take academic courses (English, math, science, social studies), encourages them to try music and art. He was pleased as punch last year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...
Died. Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...
Only a handful of Parisians read this anemic little book when it first appeared in 1896. Few of them could have thought it likely that its author, a rather foppish and not very likable young social climber, would later devote the bulk of his adult life to composing one of the literary masterpieces of the times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life...