Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes men teach at women's colleges? "A young instructor summed it up very neatly the other day when he said, 'I think women are wonderful...
...still felt "like a rank amateur" after his first long-haired composition, but he confessed he was already at work on a second. This one, he said, would be about the California redwoods and would be "sort of austere, with an ecclesiastic, cathedral-like quality . . . 'Lofty' I think would be a good word...
Heartened by such new facilities for geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just what we do for younger people. And I think we have the proof of this at our two homes...
Southworth's trouble in Boston was deeper and more recent. It began last winter after Southworth had masterminded a mediocre collection of misfits and castoffs to the 1948 National League pennant. When his ballplayers wanted more money, they heard from the front office that "Southworth doesn't think you're worth any more than you're getting." As the 1949 season wore on, the Braves split into three or four camps-some for Southworth, some against him, and some just against each other...
Snapped Rossellini: "Whether she is or is not is nobody's affair. I think that report deserves neither denial nor confirmation, because it is an attempt to pry into the private life of a woman who, to assert her right to her own life, has given up her career . . . Isn't that enough...