Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard College, President Conant has Said, seeks to turn out "tough minded idealists," individuals who will be able to fight for their principles against the force of worldly realities. Hence the Harvard educational pattern has always been aimed at getting the student to order his own life, instead of spoon-feeding him and running his life for him as many other colleges seek...
Margaret Leighton gives an insistent performance as the paramour. Her lover compares her to "a child banging an empty spoon on a table" before his emotions overcome his scientific approach, and this analogy fits her role aptly...
Under the spoon-feeding of Cartoonist Charlie Plumb, Ella Cinders had come a long way in 25 years with United Features Syndicate. From a childhood of downtrodden poverty, homely Ella had grown up into a curly-locked career girl who had married tall & handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip...
...personalities : Herbert Hoover, a high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution; Henry Wallace, a symbol of the idealist gone wild and then sour; Jesse Jones, the hard-nosed banker-baron, Texas Stetson style; Averell Harriman, a symbol of the silver spoon and the itch to do good. If Charles Sawyer was the symbol of anything, he was a symbol of the man who never missed...
...dominance relation between the stimulus and the conditioning environment. . . ." Vag reached in his pocket for another pencil to note this down; he didn't understand it, but it sounded like an important point. There were a number of things in his pocket--a handkerchief, some matches, a spoon he had absentmindedly walked off with from supper three days before--there were also two sharp pieces of cardboard which Vag was unable to identify--he brought them out to have a look. They were two rather battered ticket stubs...