Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States has failed to prepare "for the educational Pearl Harbor toward which we are rushing," charged Eric A. Walker, president of Pennsylvania State University, at the opening public session of the Conference on Education and Science, Monday night...
...addition to better training, this nation needs better methods for early identification of student talent. Walker suggested a nation-wide system of pre-college qualifying exams, one in ninth grade and a second in the twelfth. His fifth point called for a change in the attitude toward scholarship held by both students and adults. The educator closed with a plea for more funds to be channeled into education...
...Eversharp, Inc., who started plugging his pens and pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game in which Eversharp contestants could supply progressively difficult answers and work their way toward an extravagant "$64 question"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that...
Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...