Word: stress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their friendly battle-assuming that it stayed friendly-was an indication of how things were in the U.S. The major parties, never far apart ideologically, only divide violently in moments of great, inner stress. The simple and uncomplicated issue of 1948-whether or not it was time to clean house-was a good sign of a generally united...
Math, however, lately has turned into a bugaboo for McColl, and he plans to avoid it and science as much as possible while planning his program at the College. He intends to stress the liberal arts, with an eye to going on to law school...
...write as if all U.S. history had been "determined" by economic forces alone, he ruffled them once more. Said Beard: "The economic interpretation is one key to history . . . not the key." He cautioned that all history-writing had an unavoidable bias, that each historian would approve or disapprove, stress or ignore, according to his time and temperament...
...study of different kinds of courage under sharp melodramatic stress, this is a remarkably good screen play. But the script is far surpassed by the way Huston and his cameraman Karl Freund and the players get it on to film. Huston takes such expert, type-tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times...
That the essays would be better than those composed under the exam stress is certainly true, but every student would have the same chance at improvement. And let no one fear that such essays would allow anyone to escape without doing the reading: a good paper would require as much work as does a good examination. The student's thinking processes would certainly be stimulated more often during a term than most men's are under the examination system. And the more frequent the thought, the less superficial his knowledge of the course...