Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
...Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing and song...
...inflated U.S. economy, Wall Streeters consider stocks generally deflated, feel that the Big Board is selling the U.S. short. Item: Standard Oil (N.J.), with indicated 1948 earnings of $16 a share, is now selling at $84-only a bit more than five times earnings. Many another stock, with years of steady dividends behind it, is paying anywhere from 7% to 11% a year in dividends (most bonds are paying only 3 to 4%). Samples: Westinghouse Air Brake, Standard Brands, Underwood Corp., American Safety Razor Corp., Cluett, Peabody...
Titling his Commencement Part "An Attitude Towards Literature," Kerans deplored the "long-lamented gulf between the serious writer and the reading public.... A literature which deals with the full and complex range of human experience... can become a standard and accessible literature only if it fills a need at once conscious and widespread...