Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen in the north, who used to swoop down on their villages and carry off their sons and daughters for sale as slaves in the marts of the Middle East. The north, in turn, is beset by factionalism among its Moslem religious leaders...
...Monitor also attracts a high class of newsman. Many, like NBC Commentator Joseph Harsch and New York Herald Tribune Pundit Roscoe Drummond, go inevitably to better jobs. But the average service is 15 years for the 115 Monitor staffers who work in its cathedral-hushed city room, where they turn out prose unpolluted by cigar smoke, gin fumes or profanity...
Last week the tension between writer and commissar stretched even tighter. The party decided to turn the independent-minded daily Sztandar Mlodych (Standard of Youth) into a house organ for the Communists' discredited Union of Socialist Youth Association. Then Stalinist Author Leon Kruczkowski, chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, bluntly warned the press that censorship will become an even stronger "weapon of cultural policy...
...Paris. In a familiar living-death type of ending (recalling Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and Henry James's Washington Square), the big house is shut again, the mirrors are covered once more, and Erika sits brooding before the fire: "Now it is my turn to wait...
Actually, White wanted to turn out a special sort of housewife. The "home arts," he insisted, should be a part of the liberal arts, and not just a viewing of the universe as an "infinite series of identical and isolated fruit salads." He gave his students a thorough grounding in literature, art and history, brought to his campus such teachers as Composer Darius Milhaud, Author (The Friendly Persuasion) Jessamyn West and Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein. Since the career of the average woman, White argued, is to raise a family, why not prepare her for it while at the same time...