Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Please Close the Door." But most of the children had deeper trouble. The most clearly retarded ones had to be taught to wash and feed themselves, and to understand such simple instructions as "Please close the door." For them there were courses in handicrafts, exercises to improve muscle coordination. For...
To Smith, there is something faintly "unAmerican" about making collective society so all-important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society...
"Society," raved one social chronicler, "staged a magnificent comeback, with blazing jewels and gorgeous gowns." It turned out to be an audience of distinction in other ways: nobody stood on his head nor did any of the ladies put their feet on the tables. Before the curtain went up there...
Pianist Tatum sat at a corner table, his customary bottle of beer before him, and admitted he was tired of the grind of nightclub shows, sometimes thinks of retiring to his home in California with his wife and two Doberman pinschers. But as the intermission pianist swung into a chorus...
At a presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and...