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...Then it was Europe. All over Europe. But finally I quit Katherine Dunham. I had been there for a long time and I was getting stagnant. I wanted to go on my own. So I got a job singing at 'Carroll's' which is a cabaret. That's where Orson Welles saw me." He was strange. I met him at the bar upstairs. You know, there are two bars at 'Carroll's,' one upstairs and one downstairs, and he said very formally, 'Hello, my dear, I certainly enjoyed your performance this evening.' A record across the room was playing...
...Democratic Socialism-A New Appraisal: "The working class is not the Messiah which some of us thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should recognize that material progress has been furthered by competition for material reward . . . The concept of the class conflict basic to Marxism needs modification. Marx thought that the lines of division between...
...event, Design can bolster its prestige and sow the seeds for educational endowments by expanding its research program. It has had the opportunities, refusing thousands of research dollars because President Conant wanted no unfinished projects burdening an incoming dean. But a school which is not experimenting becomes stagnant, and its faculty is soon working with superannuated tools. An objection raised by the University to a large temporary research program is the fact that it cannot provide tenure for instructors. If industries will begin donating the endowments which can assure a permanent, non-transient faculty...
Many a French educator has begun to regard this curriculum as lopsided-a holdover from the days when most students were of the wealthy and professional classes. In stuffy, stagnant classrooms, teachers have paid little attention to the individual student, treating them all as so many minds to be crammed for the dreaded "bachot." And each year, as many as 60% of their pupils have flunked the exam...
Meanwhile, because the virus is carried by a mosquito (Culex tarsails) which breeds in stagnant water, valley residents were going all out to put oil on pools and spray everything in sight...