Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, Shakespeare created his weirdest world--universe, I should perhaps say--in Macbeth. And its words somehow penetrate to the very marrow of one's bones and take possession of one's whole being; Shakespeare here reaches in us the three states he has plumbed so deeply in his characters: the conscious, the sub-conscious, and the unconscious. The last two are states that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much...
...drivers often draw eight hours' pay for a 5½-hour trip, simply because the trip once took eight hours. Grace Line needs only ten men on a conveyor, but is forced by the International Longshoremen's Association to hire 21, four of whom do nothing but take turns pressing a button...
...take sadistic pleasure in trumpeting our stupidities and ineptitudes. What makes The Ugly American a bestseller? Why do the movies hurry it into extravagant production? It is that mood that leads men to spend two whole weeks making a thoroughgoing and complete examination of the educational system of the Soviets (through Russian interpreters) and come home to laud its strongest points while comparing them with our weakest...
...stimulate students to "the cultivation of a mind that seeks to express itself in its own way at its own best "evel." This is part of "the democratic process," which "has a strength, a stability, a moral force that no other system can match," and the U.S. should take pride...
...such that Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell, a sociologist, walked out of a class last fortnight, saying: "It's over my head." Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown-up atmosphere in the labs. "It's not like high school, where the teachers are standing over you and threatening," said Edward M. Chait...