Word: telling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear some U.S. polemicists tell it, the goals of American education should match those of the Russians. Not so, warned Faust. The aims of Communist education are unquestioning obedience and technological specialization in the service of the state. The vastly different American ideal focuses on "the development of each individual's capacity to think for himself. We are convinced that every individual is entitled to discover or rediscover the truth for himself and that only as he makes the effort to do so can he really grasp it, truly understand it, and make it a part of himself...
...caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends him to an "observation center" in the country, where young offenders are literally knocked into shape. His mother visits him only to tell him that he can never come back home. "Your father . . . has lost his job because of you . . . and is completely disinterested in your fate...
...smell of tobacco emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...
...television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop looking." Moderator Susskind...
...will spend 1.3%. Its laboratories are equipped with 19 storage rooms that simulate desert, winter, tropic and arctic climates to test how long products will stand up in each. They have a texturometer that can gauge the chewiness of everything from beefsteak to whipped cream, automatic analyzers that can tell how much gelatin is in a batch of JellO, or what kind of protein is in a piece of meat. The laboratories produced all of the seven new products produced in 1959: butterscotch chips, caramel chips, Buffay (a fortified rice), Instant Yuban (a high-grade coffee), Horizon's Italian...