Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own parents. After a quick leaflet campaign, he opened his crusade at Kingsway Hall. "If all the 12 million children in the country joined the union," he solemnly told his audience of 24 children and a few adults, "it would be the strongest body in England-and I think they would make a better job of running it than their elders...
...union would first abolish whippings. "Why do people think their children are dangerous wild animals?" thundered Copping. "Children should have equal rights with their parents." There would be no more slaps or knuckle-rappings. Furthermore, rules against smoking and drinking would apply to both children and adults alike...
...answer to that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good shake-up and house cleaning is just what the Detroit Symphony needs. Troublemakers had better resign now before I fire them...
Tickle, Tickle. Koestler wants to show what forces cause human beings to think, to create and to destroy. As a "back door" into this problem, he begins by examining the forces that make men laugh. He shows, with the help of a number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments...
Snarling Plan E was a major victory for the Mayor; it proved that his latest machine is coming of age. The "Battle of the Plans" is only a symptom of an underlying tangle in Boston. As long as people are willing to pay the price of bossism because they think that it serves them well-and many Bostonians consider Curley a fine Mayor-they can expect these debacles at almost regular intervals...