Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against-the quiz programs is Actors' Equity, not because the actors were...
...Main Streets. A band of influential Missourians led by St. Louis Lawyer Jacob M. Lashly, sometime president of the American Bar Association, urged Symington to run for the Senate in the 1952 election. "I don't think the world is in as bad shape as you do," Lashly told him. "But if it is, you have no right to go back to the pleasure of making money...
...Sarah Lawrence girl likes to think of herself not only as an isolated individual, but as an important part of the college community. Consequently, student organizations form a significant part of campus life. Last year the Student Council decided to give car privileges to seniors, and the recommendation was sent to the Joint Committee, consisting of nine voting members, three of whom are students. Here the proposal was rejected on the grounds outlined above, and the added consideration that seniors should not be treated differently from other students...
...school is small enough to ensure that these grievances will be heard. A burgeoning student interest in Russian, for instance, is likely immediately to produce a Russian course, as it did last year, but the situation is by no means as unique as the student body likes to think...
...radical as it likes to think, nor as it once was, Sarah Lawrence--at its best--produces a girl whose individualism is tempered by community responsibility and whose fervor for education is complemented by social awareness. Tenaciously hugging to its radical policies in theory, the college has moderated them in practice