Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never expected to see TIME joining the ranks of the people who look down their noses upon the poor standard of living of the uncultured tribes of the Gauls. Your Jan. 10 article "The Sheltering Sky" may well have been written by a sightseeing tourist . . . What is wrong with "houses built under the reign of Francis I?" I have lived in just such a house . . . The plumbing was perfect. Who invented the saga of the French plumbing? I have a hunch it was a nation frustrated for having nothing but gadgets to hold onto in the emptiness of a hectic...
...been made toward a solid understanding between the races will be wiped away by a forced desegregation. Virtually all of the respected, liberal voices of the South are urging a program of intensified school building for Negro children as well as a long-range industrialization to raise the living standard of the negro, but none yet has suggested that either race is prepared for what they consider the socially traumatic experience of complete amalgamation...
...pressing need for the Negro population just now. There is virtually no opposition to plans to construct white-equal but segregated Negro school systems which the South has promised and should have provided years ago. So also does the Southerner know that a general strengthening of the overall economic standard is prerequisite to making much of the marginal South into an area which will support a harmonious Negro-white relationship...
...composer's intentions. Rosina, for instance, is sung by a mezzo-soprano as Rossini first planned. And she sings his original Lesson Scene, not the customary aria interpolated for benefit for the claque. The orchestra is authentically chamber-size and the theater itself much more intimate than our standard operatic caverns...
...allowed to grow, this new phenomenon could transform the historic character of Germany and give it a new role in the family of nations. The conflicting forces within the German people might be resolved. West Germany's economy does not need an armaments industry to prosper, and its standard of living is already on the upgrade. Non-militarized, the Germans could be a living example of a people who coveted, sinned, were punished, repented, and found fulfillment in living without weapons. Militarized, they may not become warmongers, but they will be precluded from playing that distinctive old. The tragedy...