Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean, isn't it?" By ending the play at that point, Director Herbert Hirschman avoided both facile moralism and easy sentimentalism. Though Actor Corey was as good in his moments of stress as he was bad in those of tenderness, main focus rested on Barbara Bel Geddes, who was so poignantly convincing as the tortured heroine that The Desperate Age came desperately close...
...German Bab," an intensive course in elementary German, will stress the acquisition of basic reading skills and will include practice in aural comprehension. It will be open only to students who have had less than two years of German in secondary school...
...believes that "merely restricting the diet has never been known to be of real value." A major exception: cases of bleeding ulcers. Patients allowed to eat what they want have done at least as well as the rigidly controlled, if not better. All ulcer patients react too strongly to stress. "So if a patient falls off the milk wagon, his guilt feelings may cause the gastric glands to secrete more acid...
...Mutual Broadcasting System, stepped in as president, replacing Paul Roberts, 44. Hammer, an independent oilman, formed the syndicate that bought Mutual from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc. last August, installed Roberts, a Los Angeles radio executive, to pull /the money-losing network into the black. While Roberts' big stress on music and news brought MBS to the break-even point, he and Hammer reportedly disagreed on the future plans. Hammer said he would remain president only until he could get someone else...
...time has come, said Woodring, for teachers colleges to stress not personality but productivity. "The graduate programs for master teachers and administrators, including the programs leading to the Ed.D. degree, should include and require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas...