Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies in the contrast it reveals between Orwell and Miller. Where Orwell devoted his full attention to the world of reality, Miller's trick was to turn his back on it--not denying, just ignoring it. In the midsection of the essay, Orwell digresses to give a superb pocket survey of twentieth century English literature...
Stouffer, director of the Laboratory of Social Relations, said that sophomores and seniors have so far shown "gratifying response" to the laboratory's survey...
Questionnaires were sent to one out of every five members of the two classes at Harvard and Radcliffe. The survey had received strong support from the administrations of both schools...
...insurance-company statistics, which do not necessarily apply in Canada, or on statistics compiled 40 years ago, when nutrition was far below today's standards. Dr. Lionel Pett, head of the Health Department's nutrition division, has tried for several years to interest the government in a survey to compile accurate Canadian tables. This year, after the World Health Organization had urged member nations to make new height-weight surveys, he got funds to finance the study...
...everything else in the book seems minor, though continually interesting. Inside the Whale is a long, over generous celebration of Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, in which Orwell sees Miller as a last-ditch individualist thumbing his nose at a mechanized world. England Your England is an impressionistic survey of Orwell's native land, in which he uses such unconventional criteria as the difference between the German's strutting goose step and the English parade step ("merely a formalised walk") to score some shrewd points about the strength of democracy...