Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Buck, who termed the arrangement a "superb" one, the Faculty "feels that it has worked very well." Describing the difficulties inherent in presenting the same lecture twice, he pointed out that the joint instruction program saves resources and time. It has been in effect on the graduate level for many years...
...demands for a 30% pay boost. Young Henry has solved that by i) patient bargaining and 2) showing the U.A.W. the precarious status of the company. He hoped he had also solved the problem of increasing productivity. If he had, then the cost of making cars in his superb production machine should go down...
...Lute Song" is one of the riskiest theatrical experiments tried in the last decade, one which required courage and good taste for its very genesis. Sidney Howard and Will Irwin have adapted a 550-yard-old Chinese classic into what earns the appelation of a charming and artistically superb love story. As far as the play's financial fate is concerned, however, the reactions of large but indifferent Boston audiences may well point to an early demise...
...more & more a pamphleteer-also admits that he sheds no tears for individual enterprise. "Modern man is essentially a communal and cooperating man. . . . We have no Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare. But we accomplish what would seem miracles to our forefathers ... by our new pooling of knowledge and our superb teamwork. When the American O.W.I. . . . showed us the film they had made about [TVA] . . . I felt as deeply moved as I would have been by a noble work...
...very different kind of book on the same general subject is Robert Sherrod's On to Westward. As a TIME correspondent, Sherrod followed the war in the Central Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa. The tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo...