Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three important factors in American education which must not be neglected, Conant said, include: a general education for all, vocational courses for those who do not wish to enter college, and a strong academic program to take care of the needs of qualified students...
...enormous masterwork fit such a brief compass, the usual expedient is to cut the dream scene in hell, a glorious ideological quartet for voices, specifically designed by the author as a detachable interlude. The reigning powers at Group 20 have decided to leave in the hell scene, and to take in compensation frequent cuts and tucks and darts and snatches throughout the play, which necessarily means eliminating some of the best stuff...
Blough believes that collective bargaining is a matter of give and take, and that industry has been doing most of the giving. As head of Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and 232,000 employees, he presents his reasons for crying "halt" as if he were preparing a legal brief. Says he: "The results of collective bargaining between the companies and the steelworkers' union have been characterized by unsustainable cost increases, major strikes and government intervention. It is time to raise the question as to whether nationwide wage policies, industry-wide strike power, the ability to shut down...
...entire atmosphere in Big Steel's union relations has changed since Blough took over the company from Benjamin F. Fairless in 1955. Unlike Ben Fairless. who used to tour the steel mills with McDonald, Blough believes in keeping the union brass at a distance, never hesitates to take on the union in public. His hard new line is no quickly thought-up policy; as long ago as last fall, he met with other steel executives to work out the strategy for holding the line on the union...
What Is Chastity? Originally planned as part of Comfort Me with Apples (TIME, April 30, 1953). the new book almost seems like a double take of the earlier novel. The hero is again Chick Swallow, the poor man's Freud, who writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His chief anxiety is still his sophomoric brother-in-law Nickie Sherman, a fool in bon motley. In Comfort, Nickie salvaged his ego by catching a crook; in Tents, Nickie becomes a crook, at odd hours, and ends up chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found...